Without Rational Motive

A school shooting in Finland has pointed up the moral inadequacies of the Scandinavian system, even beyond the single-figure casualties and single-unit death toll. As a juvenile, the perpetrator cannot be detained or publicly identified and offered up for media-powered mob hatred; but this protection is entirely dependent upon his age, rather than his contacts, his personal wealth or his position in the national class structure. Perhaps most scandalously un-Anglo-American of all, he eppears to have been provoked into action by peer socialisation measures rather than by legitimate and understandable concerns over race, religion or politics.