anthropomorph

So how do you manage your time on Hacker News? Even though this site teaches me things, it works a lot like a slot machine. Each pull of the lever has a small chance of dispensing a reward like a mildly interesting article. Not that different from reddit or buzzfeed. The difference mostly being the academic level of the reward.

How is it useful for you, or anyone, to know the name and face of a mass killer? It's not like you can predict how likely it is someone will murder you based on how they look or what they're called.

The point is that media is making mass killers into celebrities and that encourages more sick (read depressed, lonely) people to perform acts like this.