![]() Her agenda? At least in part to redeem herself, if not Dylan, in our eyes, though the line gets necessarily fuzzy. ![]() Throughout, Sue Klebold is articulate, thorough and thoughtful. But we cannot dedicate ourselves to preventing violence if we do not take into account the role depression and brain dysfunction can play in the decision to commit it.” ![]() “If suicide seems like the only way out of an existence so painful it has become intolerable,” she writes, “is that really an exercise of free will?” She goes on to say that “what did was profoundly wrong. So was Dylan evil then? She wonders in the penultimate chapter. But she didn’t recognize the severity of Dylan’s alienation and depression - nor does she claim his “brain illness” as excuse or justification Klebold acknowledges that “ost people living with mood disorders are not dangerous to others at all.” “In addition to being an easy child, Dylan was a happy one,” she writes.Īs he got older, he became shy, self-conscious and occasionally over-sensitive. Tom and Sue called Dylan “our little trouper.” It wasn’t just that halo of hair or that he was intellectually gifted, a lover of puzzles, an origami wizard. Klebold doesn’t actually go that far - she doesn’t try to convince us that Dylan was good, though he was, she tells us, her “sunshine boy.” But murder? Good people plan and execute mass murder? Moreover, good people are capable of monstrous acts. ![]()
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