It isn't illegal aliens, or video games, or guns laws. You know what causes this kind of stuff? Our culture of permissiveness. You think this kid would have pulled this crap in South Korea? No way. The minute someone read his f!ed up stories he would have been whacked around with a stick by people in authority- school administrators, maybe the cops, definitely his family.
We spend all our time praising the individual, enabling the individual, yet we never stop to tell the individual that they have a set of responsibilities tosociety- that they owe society a duty, and if they shirk that duty, they deserve to be punished. We live in a seemingly consequence-free world- except when someone like this kid gets pushed over the edge by some little thing and goes on a murderous rampage. Then it becomes all about what we should have done to keep this kid from behaving this way. What about punishment? Apparently the other kids in school had a bad feeling about him. But somehow the people in charge were oblivious? Not good. On 4/17/07, Gruss wrote: > > > Jim wrote: > > Basically he's saying (over and over and over) again that video games > caused > > all of this - although nobody has shown any evidence that they played > any > > role in this incident. > > There is a pervasive theme in violence in our society as a whole of > which video games are a part. I have a hard time believing that this > isn't part of it. > > It's like putting your kid in party school - odds are much greater > he'll become a partier. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232796 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
