What do people need to stop romanticizing?

I kind of went through a similar thing. Got fascinated with Columbine, serial killers, violence and satanism. I spent so much time online with this shit that I avoided school work and other activities. When you grow up being told you don't have the right to your feelings and experieces or have them be dismissed, the anger felt so fucking validating... So justified!

I ended up taking a step back after a Satanic forum I was on(good old days of Yahoo) I was on kept spewing the same thing about Jews, Christians, and Muslims. I was on board with not liking the Western religions but thought it was really weird that they justified their haterred of people in this century by heavily circulating evidence of injustices from centuries ago. There were so many young people willing to perform rituals or do other shit because of the outrage that information created...But it seemed so shallow to me. The group didn't break down the believes of anything or counter argue points. It was literally ________ is bad because people did this. Oh and here is some of the shitty things some _____ did today, somewhere. We can't tolerate this and must fight them! At all cost". After months of trying, I finally ended up getting my hands on the Satanic Bible. That book got me into philosophy. I figured if I'm going to hate something maybe I should find out why I'm justified in that belief and be able to give a counter perspective if questioned. Do my justifications hold water or are they just a product of a knee jerk reaction to surface level evidence. I still watched dark stuff, but it went from living vicariously to trying to understand motivation. Over time of many different books, I left the dark anger behind.

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