I suppose I agree about the drugs, but it is so much more unpallatable someone strangling another person than slipping them a pill.
I doubt whether the 13 year old will ever suffer any consequences, unless they have a conscience, as the defence will just prove that they didn't know what they were doing.
As for the idea that kids of today are no worse than in my day, I don't subscribe to that either. Each generation sees an escalation of boundaries and the pushing of what is acceptable, it also sees the innevitable desensitising of the general public. I don't believe that my generation were angels, but what I see nowadays really makes me think that we are descending into the pits of hell.
The chicken and egg scenario of the media will always be open for debate. Are they simply reporting on something that is happening, or is the reporting making it happen?
Topper Harley.
The chicken and egg scenario of the media will always be open for debate. Are they simply reporting on something that is happening, or is the reporting making it happen?
Topper Harley.
this is why, although juvenile crime and misbehaviour is down all across the board, we somehow believe that the current generation of youths is 'worse'. It is a catch 22 which will be forever unfolding IMO.
The media has the power to bring this to our attention, which makes it seem far worse then it realistically is...they use terms such as 'will cause countless deaths' which of coarse it not actually saying anything at all! Good news never means good ratings!
I suppose what I am trying to say is that although this is shocking the only reason we think it is worse is because it is in our faces via the media
I guess I started this thread to make parents aware of the problem. I would rather be accused of being drawn in by the media if it helped to save one life, rather than thinking kids will be kids.
your quote nicely brings us to the heisenberg principle, naturally the media affect what the report on... "Post hoc, ergo procto hoc" as our roman friends would say. the question is do they do so in a bias way? to make money or influence people? well thats up for debate
I'm actually with you on Darwin.
I have to say that I am lucky enough that I always had the confidence to do my own thing. I am not saying that I wasn't shallow and needy trying to get approval from my peers, but I new where to draw the line and a lot of the time went my own way.
I never even smoked, I just didn't fancy it.
So maybe I am the odd one out and led a sheltered life while all around me were getting high and strangling each other.
Funnily enough, I hate football too.
I think the funniest thing I have heard is a young lad at work who dresses as he does because he wants to be different. He wears all black, beanie hats, piercings everywhere you can imagine and has an attitude a mile wide. The funniest thing is, he looks like al the others that dress like that in their Goth/Scene kid way. He doesn't even realise that he has tried so hard not to get sucked into wearing a "uniform" he is actually wearing one.
Hmm football. I like to drop in the occasional "Overpaid bunch of arrogant, self worshipping gits who wouldn't know real work if it fell on them". That usually gives a few moments of silence, as if I had just produced proof that god doesn't exist.