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From: [email protected] (Bob Pitas)
Subject: Re: WARNING.....(please read)...
In article <[email protected]> [email protected] (Brian Harvey) writes:
>[email protected] (Robbie Felix) writes:
>>How about the thousands of kind teenagers who volunteer at local
>>agencies to help children, seniors, the homeless?
>
>Hear, hear! Thanks, Robbie.
>
>You also don't read that much about violence *against* teenagers, such as
>George Bush burying alive tens of thousands of unarmed Iraqi 17-year-olds,
>who were trying to surrender, with bulldozers.
>
>
>On the other hand, I think it *is* true, without singling out teenagers
>for blame, that violence is more socially acceptable than it used to be.
>Those of us who'd like to discourage violence have plenty of work to do
>with people of all ages.
Well, this isn't the right group for this, but I have to say that I don't
think violence is any more socially acceptable now, by any means. How
can you say that when we used to have of pistol-toting gunslingers as
heros, or even gangland thugs being considered romantic. Do you think
our great grandparent got yelled at by their parents for playing cowboys
and indians? I don't think so. That behavior was somewhat encouraged
back then, in fact.
I think the only difference between now and then is that nowadays, when
some teenager kills another one in a classroom in California, we here
about it in MA the same day. Back in the old days, they'd never hear
about something like that, period.
Sorry about posting to rec.autos, but this is where it came up...
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