David Johnston wrote:

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About "Lost".  Using my incredible psychic powers I shall predict what the
important thing the author has to say might be...

"Picking on social outcasts is a bad thing that can have tragic consequences."

Thats not to say that social outcasts can't do something extreme.  But, without
bringing magic, psychic powers and the like into the equation, 

In which case you've essentially rewritten _Carrie_. . . .

the response would
probably be a suicide pact, or something involving poisoning.  

There was an article in the _Asahi Shinbun_ about six months to a year
ago about a girl who attempted to poison her entire class.

There really is nothing new under the sun.

-- David