Rather, he asks us to view the senseless dousing of young lives as symbolic of a dire societal reality we have accepted for far too long.
On this view, it is senseless to call something good unless this means that it is good for someone or in some respect or for some use or at some activity or as an instance of some kind.
All of this was senseless, and from the military point of view, a display of ignorance, incompetence, and illiteracy..
My mother thought it was senseless torture.
Philosophical minds find connections to Dostoyevsky and Camus by viewing the book's act of senseless murder as "the defining metaphor for a godless age".
Given this happened in war-torn Congo, it could be viewed as just another act of senseless violence in a conflict that already has claimed four million lives.
County Prosecutor Joe Deters, after viewing the video of the incident, called the shooting "senseless" and "horrible".
Spes phthisica, which sought to make sense of the senseless and give purpose to purposeless suffering and death, came to be viewed as a prerequisite for creative genius.
When Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold shot up the school in Colombine, it was a senseless tragedy, but no one profiled Harris or Klebold's ethnicity, or their religious views, or lack thereof.
What begins as nothing more than senseless babble quickly morphs into constant questioning that rivals anything Oprah or the co-hosts of The View could muster.
I know that attention will turn to the tired conversations about gun control views, and still nothing will replace those lives or put an abrupt end to the senseless killings that are America's "new normal".
