Yakov Kogan: "There is no panacea"

"I read your comments, suggestions and conclusions about the tragedy in Kazan. And I agree with many. Yes, a certificate of mental health can be bought without problems for quite affordable money. Check for yourself. Any search engine will gladly give you several completely solid medical organizations in your city, where you can get a sanitary book that opens the doors to any work and a certificate confirming the ideal state without there. Your nervous system, and analyzes that make you suitable for sending into space, ”writes an artist and blogger on his Facebook page.

"To ban all this, to return all to the bosom of state medicine, thereby creating monstrous queues? I am not sure that it will help. Moreover, state medical institutions also do not shy away and accept them on a completely regular basis.

To ban long-suffering computer games that allegedly taught someone there? I wonder who? Was Chikatilo a gamer? Not sure. Well, then let's already forbid such egregious entertainment as paintball and strikbol, because there, unlike manipulations with the mouse and keyboard, practiced by lovers of computer battles, people work out real fire management techniques for defeat.

What is it trifling - hunting, hunting to be completely banned. Just think, on the hunt, hunters regularly hone the skill of shooting from firearms on live targets. And they are not afraid of the type of blood, and then they divide their victims, and, oh the right -handed God, eat the corpses of innocently killed!

But this is all nonsense, of course. None of the so -called shooters of recent years was neither a hunter nor a stoncball fan or even the champion of the district in the Constitutional Court. All of them were ordinary psychos that were not recognized, first of all, because they are very difficult to recognize. Are you personally confident in your neighbors on the landing? I am not.

And this means that all prohibition measures, alas, will not work. They will complicate us an already non -simple life, create new dealers who will resell and get the right one for a fraction of the small, but they will not work.

A couple of days ago, the news flashed - in St. Petersburg a mentally unhealthy uncle poked a girl with a knife. White day, just like that. There, fortunately, no one died, but the principle, I think, is clear. You won’t guess where and when such an uncle with a knife, ax, gun, or whatever worse.

What to do? Don't know. Perhaps to be a little more attentive in your loved ones, to those with whom you communicate and live. Listen, sit silently nearby, talk until the morning - suddenly will help.

After all, such people do not arise from emptiness, but they had parents, friends, neighbors. And someone simply did not notice them, did not pay attention to how a person is immersed in madness or psychosis day after day.

But this is a dubious advice, I understand. And in such a situation I really want to find the guilty, the reason, the tangible and understandable object, which should be brought down for all righteous anger. But he, this tangible and understandable, is not. Because, I repeat, it is extremely difficult to track, predict and recognize the fraughts of human mind. Anyway - there is no more ephemeral thing than this very reason. On Earth, seven billion crazy, if you are not in the know. And listening and understanding everyone is like that.

Take care of yourself if possible, learn to be where you need to be and slip away from those places in which it is undesirable, and never forget that we are not all for a very long time.

So there is no panacea, sorry. "