Look past what you're encouraged to see (Score 1)

It is not hard to see that official attention is paid to an atrocity in direct proportion to the social status of its victims, and usually, its (immediate) perpetrators. [....] Uncaring parents and teasing by classmates notwithstanding, these two kids had a lot of advantages over most. If
the sickness of our society is beginning to get to them, how many more vulnerable people does it destroy?

But is that not the point of all the official attention? They shouldn't have gone bad--but they did. Why?