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From: [email protected] (FRED W. BACH)
Subject: Re: WARNING.....(please read)...
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (Allen Tobias) writes...
#In article <[email protected]> [email protected] ("Erik Velapoldi") writes:
#>This happened about a year ago on the Washington DC Beltway.
#>Snot nosed drunken kids decided it would be really cool to
#>throw huge rocks down on cars from an overpass. Four or five
#>cars were hit. There were several serious injuries, and sadly
#>a small girl sitting in the front seat of one of them was struck
#>in the head by one of the larger rocks. I don't recall if she
#>made it, but I think she was comatose for a month or so and
#>doctors weren't holding out hope that she'd live.
#>
#>What the hell is happening to this great country of ours? I
#>can see boyhood pranks of peeing off of bridges and such, but
#>20 pound rocks??! Has our society really stooped this low??
Yes. Nobody is watching them. If they get caught, there is no punishment
at all. In the old days such behaviour would be rewarded with a whipping
with a good-sized belt, and then taken into some hospital to see first hand
what kind of damage such accidents cause. Of course this doesn't happen
any more. That whipping would probably save the kid's life by teaching
him some respect for others. A person with that little respect would
inevitably wind up dead early anyway.
The problem is creeping gradualism. If you put a frog into hot water,
he just jumps out. But if you put him into cold water and then ever-so-
gradually heat it, the frog will cook. This is what the entertainment
industry and lack of religious, moral, and educational standards in our
modern North American society have done to us over the years. Now that
we are about to be 'cooked', we may have woken up too late.
#>
#>Erik velapold
#
#Society, as we have known it, it coming apart at the seams! The basic reason
#is that human life has been devalued to the point were killing someone is
#"No Big Deal". Kid's see hundreds on murderous acts on TV, we can abort
#children on demand, and kill the sick and old at will. So why be surprised
#when some kids drop 20 lbs rocks and kill people. They don't care because the
#message they hear is "Life is Cheap"!
And the education system and the Religious Leaders aren't doing much
about it, either. With both parents working in this society, where is
the stabilizing influence at home? Latchkey children are everywhere!
And these latchkey kids can watch whatever rotten videos and listen to
whatever violent hate-promoting "music" and videos they like because no
one is home to stop it.
This day and age, when there is about 100 times more things to learn
than when I went to school, our answer to this increased knowledge is
shorter school hours and more leisure time! I say keep the kids in
school longer, feed them good food and teach them something, and when
they get home, have a parent there to interact and monitor them. There
is a very old and now forgotten proverb: a child left on his own will
bring a parent to grief. Daycare systems are not the answer. This is
just shifting the parents' own responsibilities off on someone else to
whom it's not a life-long committment, but rather just a job.
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