Who's fault was it?

[zara]

I can't remember exactly how it goes, but apparently it was a exam question or something.
A young childs Gran mother passes away and he tells his teacher he can talk to her still. The teacher tells him thats not right, ghosts aren't real and he needs help.
The child tells his mother the same thing, she tells him that she believes him.
When he's older he goes on a killing spree, who's fault is it? The teacher? Or the mother?

[guiseppe]

Neither of them. Although, the teacher should never have told him that and crash his beliefs because beliefs can't be taught so no teacher has the right to actually tell you differently. And the mothers, most definatly not because she is only looking out for her son and wants him to be happy so she tells him what he wants to hear. And truely no one can go on a killing spree just from someone tell him what's real and whats not. Because truely, it have never been proven if you can talk to the dead anyways. Now what he should have done is gone and proved his teacher wrong if it was such a big deal to him. He should have told her straight out that she can't tell him things she's doesn't know.

[arabella]

The person that sold him the weapon lol.

I wouldn't blame either of them since it might not have been about that and if it was the kid had problems before they got to him, thinking he can hear his dead gran and all.

[erin]

Hmmmm...hard choice. Hey, that kinda reminds me of the Sixth Sence. lol. Anyways... maybe both.

[alyxx]

I don’t believe either was at fault for his behavior. It’s irresponsible for a person to pass the blame onto another person when they themselves knew exactly what they were doing. To even think of blaming either is irrational and pretty much unfounded, you would have to put up a very good bases of a ground argument to even think of putting blame on either one of them. People who murder others, are simply sick in the head or have some kind of chemical imbalance, and something like that can never be passed up as another persons fault.

Did they put the weapon in his hand? Were they ones who planted the idea of murder and killing into his head? I don’t think so. There could have been various other incidents in his life that lead him to do something. Maybe he could talk to his grandmother, many young children are capable of it and I believe that. It could also be that he was just so traumatized by the passing of someone he was close to that he implanted the idea into his own head that she was still there, talking to him.

In a sense his way of coping with her loss and therefore he was making it as though she never left. Something like that could do major harm to his psychological state of mind, and with out a person to speak to him, it could have turned into something more which in turn resulted in him being –pardon my terminology- so screwed up. That in the end could simply be why he did something so horrible. The blame can not be placed either on parent nor Teacher, its most likely a case of a Childs way of coping with death gone horribly wrong. Such cases have been known to happen, he convinces himself of something and it further damages his way of thinking which turns him into a senseless person who could possibly have no idea of reality and invented thought.

[kitty]

You can't determine that from just that information. There are too many variables to actually put blame.

[speakout]

i agree with Alyxx.

man you sounded like a therapist.lol