Some are so addicted in South Korea they actually die in their chairs and are not discovered for days. What the fuck happened that we let it get to this point and I can’t even imagine how worse it will get. My life was simple, you went out and played with your friends until the street lights came on. We were less stressed and happier.
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due to a video game addiction. Now he does serious therapy.
No question, boys are falling behind right now.
When I ask female students their plans after high school, I can't remember the last time one didn't have some sort of plan. In contrast, about half of the boys I ask have no plan. And, yes, they readily admit to being up until 3 AM on school nights playing video games. I also see more and more students with economically successful parents who are not on any path to approaching that sort of success.
With regards to violent video games/movies, there is no causal connection nor even a correlation, with violence, and certainly not mass killings. There are good reasons to keep your kids away from them, but those are not the good reasons.
What was true for the Parkland killer is true for most of these younger killers: there were plenty of actions, behaviors and signs long ago that this was a dangerous person who needed to be monitored closely and probably kept away from the general population. We do very little to head off tragedies early in the lives of young people. You'd be shocked how many violent acts by students are never even reported to the police and often don't even end up with suspension or expulsion. The response that "You can't lock up people for what they might do in the future" misses the mark in a couple ways. First, we do this all the time. Yes, one part of incarceration is retributive, but we also lock up the person who has demonstrated he is likely to recommit those same crimes, or worse ones. Second, many of these young killers have long rap sheets. Their homicidal behavior often isn't a surprise to adults who were paying attention. We in the system often feel like helpless observers as we see violent criminals who happen to be kids, perfect their crafts and grow more and more dangerous before our eyes.
Heck, many of these kids are obvious at very young ages. I think back to a student my wife had in her third grade classroom a few years back. At one point, he stabbed her with scissors, claiming it was an accident. It wasn't. Even before this, the other little kids were afraid of him. Kids also can recognize bad machines early on. Unfortunately, almost nothing is done. Giving a kid like that over to a social worker or a school psychologist is often the worst thing that can happen because these sorts of kids can manipulate them so easily. The other kids and my wife would get creeped out all the time because this kid would stare at them in a way that conveyed the malice that was obviously going on in his head. As she said at the time, if he hadn't already started, he will soon be moving on to animal torture and abusing his siblings, and then eventually killing someone someday. We just sit and watch them develop.
And if you're wondering about current thought on sociopathy, it's also a dismal outlook. Current prevailing thought is that even with violent child sociopaths, there may be very little that can be done. One idea is that we be able to condition violent young sociopaths in such a way that instead of not doing something because it is wrong/immoral, you can teach them to think in terms of how the behavior will end up harming themselves. In other words, maybe you can't teach them to empathize, but you can show them that by avoiding those destructive behaviors, they help themselves. Unfortunately, sociopaths are no oriented to think in terms of long-term self-interest in the first place, thus the dismal outlook. The best advice is to try to avoid such people and to convey to them that you understand what they are and you will not be manipulated. They usually move on to the next person they can manipulate.
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They are interesting anectodal observations with the typical MAS half-assed analysis applied. He's an interesting poster but this post is full of shit.
I know I'm tilting at windmills, but can you specify which claims are untrue? Rising illegitimacy rates? The increasing reluctance or refusal of public schools to suspend or expel students? Which ones, friend? Also, lay on that "full-ass analysis" so I can see how it's done, ally.
"On what grounds?"
"Your honor, I request a recess!"
Subject line was a dismissive joke. Funny right?
But seriously, you put a butt-load of work into that post. Though it may be, in my opinion, a streaming pile of shit, it was a solid effort in a Tommy Rees sort of way.
So you are completely right that I owe you more than a drive-by insult. If I remember, I will do the right thing tomorrow. As for now, I just couldn't let cheeks get away with that without lodging an objection.
Do I just write, er, type a lot faster than everyone? Is five minutes a long time in Lehigh Time? How long did it take you to type this response? Be honest.
I have no idea what your plan is but I'm going to play possum.
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Don't get me started about the hookah smoking caterpillar.
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those at risk to do so, many are violent gamers.
First world material affluence, technology, and preeminence create their own issues and problems.
We either limit them or we go the way of other civilizations. We are only 250 years in so I’m not ready to write the obituary yet.
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Sometimes, there are not.
It's the natural order of things to decay. Everything. Cultures and civilizations aren't immune and we have all of history to note this. We have more material wealth than any civilization in recorded history and we grow unhappier with each passing year and hopelessness and loneliness climbs and climbs. You certainly won't find solutions to that in public policy, so you can stop looking to politicians to fix these things. These problems transcend government or the free market.
Tune in. Turn on. Drop out.
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satisfaction.
I’m not just talking about Orange either.
In 1973, R’s were embarrassed by Nixon. I think even D’s would have been embarrassed by Slickster back then as well. By 1998 and 2017, they were being enthusiastically defended by their followers. And you can throw Hills in 2016 in there also. Another crook.
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The more I read you the more I see why people want to limit immigration.
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