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- Drno0
Pffff you've miss the boat,
here (italy) this situation has gotten out of hand,
first because the parents don't have any power or will to educate their children
second, because the school and teachers have given up on giving what is called "education"
third, because the student just don't give a fuck,
just last week some school principal got beaten up by angry parents after banning cell phone from school
from where do you think they get those creepy ideas?
- ender790
"first of all, some people would see this happening in front of them or hear it thru a wall and not get involved."
that's a good point. but that doesn't justify inaction.
"I think we can hardly blame kids for being irresponsible. Its what they do."
i think that's kind of the attitude that results in incidents like this. yes, kids are irresponsible. but the point is to get them to mature into responsible adults.
like harlequino said, blaming technology is an excuse. in my opinion, parents and teachers (to a lesser extent) are responsible.
- Jaline0
Nice link, Witt.
Justin, I'm doing quite alright with keeping up with what's going on in reality, around the world. Staying in school certainly helps, and although I watch tons of television I'm usually in the grey area of most things.
- Jaline0
they still watch lots of tv, it's just that they watch it online or on Youtube more than on an actual television set.
- Jaline0
you can't blame just one thing. I agree with harlequino.
- Jaline0
thanks, blackspade. Makes sense.
- studderine0
they said that about tv too..nothing new.
- acescence0
i read something about some interesting human behavior studies somewhere, wish i could remember where. basically, the results were that if someone were put in a situation where another was in distress, the likeliness of them responding was inversely proportional to the number of others they thought were also witness. meaning, the more people they thought were also party to the information, the more they assumed someone else would help.
- exador10
hey folks.
the school jaline mentioned was Cawthra park...my co-workers kid goes there...it's not far from where i work...
word is that the boys in question are from the highschool hockey team.now..far be it from me to generalize here..but man....i remember what the jocks were like in MY school as a teenager..
there aint a chance in hell i'd let my daughter go to a jock party..not a chance..
i was more in the artsy crowd (as i imagine most of you were) and although we smoked our share of weed etc, the crowd i ran with would never have been involved in something like this...not sure why, but it seems as though it's always a certain sportsy crowd of guys that do shit like that...
not to generalize or anything..ex
- harlequino0
Yup, i knnow that study.
My ex is a clinical psychologist, it's a particular published psych study.
"Relieving responsibility" and stuff.
- xenicon0
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- krez0
i agree with cotton's point that it's not as simple as just blaming the parents.
you can't blame everything a kid does on his or her parents. it's virtually impossible to police every influence a child is exposed to. especially in this day and age.
that said, a parent leads by example more than anything -- if they are irresponsible pricks then the child will obviously have a poor model for their behavior.
- komkrktprod0
i think there is a connection with this type of hyperrealism stuff with the way we all interact with technology on the whole.
instead of becoming smarter because of it, most stay the same...despite it.
because the end product is essentially entertainment.
- komkrktprod0
yea blaming technology is an excuse.
i blame apathy. from what I know thats just handed down from gen to gen.
- jevad0
I blame the parents.
If those kids couldn't see right from wrong when they were doing that then they have been brought up badly and their parents need to be beaten too.
- PonyBoy0
spending time with your kids has absolutely nothing to do with it.
its easy to say this or that is the reason for all of it. its just not that simple.
cotton
(Mar 8 07, 13:48)
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you're wrong cotton.A child's welfare begins and ends with it's parents...
... unless we're discussing 'wards of the state'... which is a whole other conversation.
A child is the responsibility of their parent - end of story.
If people put a little more effort into their children... and stopped using the TV and school systems to 'raise their children'... we'd have a much happier world.
Family.
- PonyBoy0
16 years old isn't that young...
Jaline
(Mar 8 07, 08:06)
---LoL...
yes it is.
- Concrete0
What happened to the test tube generation?
- harlequino0
What happened to the test tube generation?
Concrete
(Mar 8 07, 08:49)We wised up. Crawled back into our tubes.
I am in a tube now. "Blub blub.."
- Redmond0
Any video about "rape" should be investigated. It shouldn't even exist to begin with.