No, but you probably have the dubious distinction of belonging to a generation that wore polyester, or bell-bottom pants, or love-beads, or butterfly collared cowboy shirts with ruffly sleeves, or white leather accessories like shoes and belts. Kinds of things that makes my generation gag.
Sam
That’s what we should have done with the Baby Boomers.
I recall meeting an “elderly” couple (mind you, this was thirty years ago, so they were probably about my own age now!) with a couple of very young children.
They weren’t their grandchildren, as most people would have assumed, the couple just figured that their first set of kids hadn’t turned out real well, so they decided to start over…
Hey it made us gag, too, but there was nothing else in the stores to buy!
Or, if it was the 80s, girls with very large hair made from 10 pounds of hairspray a day and both genders that agreed to wear Day-Glo colors.
I don’t know, all that ugly shit comes back as “retro” so I’m not sure all the young punks are gagging over bell bottoms. You can call them flares or some other shit, but they’re still pants with lots of fabric at the bottom. 
Actually it was dumb crap like hospital scrubs and parachute pants. And the gigantic hair.
I was one of the un-cool kids who wore jeans and regular shirts, and my hair has never more than two inches long. Big-time dork points there.
Every generation has thought their children are horrible monsters scince the beginning of time. It never fails to amuse me when I hear people bitch about the younger generation and their music, their clothes, their attitudes. My mom was that way about me. Her father was the same way with her. I’m sure I’ll have plenty to complain about when my kids are teenagers.
I disagree with this. Children are undoubtedly savages, that is; they are completely innocent. This means they are neither good nor evil, but rather ignorant of both. They can commit vicious cruetlies and awesome kindnesses in the same minute with no thought. Its true they are unsocialized, but this means a lack of sef-control, not an inherently evil personality.
But what age ‘children’ are you talking about? I’m talking about young children. The OP however was surely talking about older children (I didn’t read the article in question because I didn’t feel like registering for yet another online newspaper). But to be able to pick up stones weighing 28 lbs, these kids must have been fairly big kids.
Older children who have not been properly socialised may well be both cruel and kind in the same minute, but it’s not reasonable to call them ‘innocent’. I imagine those kids knew perfectly well what they were doing. You can’t bash somebody’s head with great big rocks and not know what you’re doing. I might buy your ‘lack of self control’ argument, but I know that small children, 3 and 4 years old, can learn to begin to control themselves. I require it of my children (now 7 and 5), and so they are bewildered when they clash with kids their age or older who have not learned any self-control, who lash out, kick, hit, claw, throw screaming temper tantrums…
If older children exhibit no self-control, I’ve a good idea it’s because nobody’s demanded it of them. And the older they get, the more likely I am to think it may well be an evil personality at work. It certainly isn’t “innocence”.
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I’m with Chotii: this definitely isn’t innocence. The kids, by the way, were sixteen when it happened. (Sorry; I didn’t know the paper required registration.) But I thought it was self-evident that younger children are much quicker to quarrel and act selfishly than to be altruistic, patient and tolerant, and people in general (especially teens like those) can lose their inhibitions and revert to that. Is that inherent evil?
Geez, I thought nobody was gonna get the joke.
You could argue that these were kids – the victim and two of his attackers were 16 – but the ringleader, the one who was insulted by the victim laughing at him and then sexually assaulted him repeatedly and made sure he got beaten to death, was a 22-year-old adult.
I have cited this source twice now on the SDMB, and have not mentioned it anywhere else in about 5 years. Interesting. On to my point
How do you fucking sustain that much anger for that long? On a “friend”? Drunken rages usually rise and fall rapidly. There has to be psychological dynamics beyond intoxication. Look, pussy, if you can’t handle 3 (weak Canadian) beers and 3 (what, strawberry-banana jell-o) shooters, expect to be fucking ridiculed. At least now there’s hope these worse-than-nazi retards will know what it’s like to be the (sexually) assaulted…with no recourse…when they ultimately reach their new homes.
To anyone in any prison to which these 3 might go: Please ass-rape and torture these fucktards at least on a daily basis…more frequently as conditions allow!
I hope you’re not a parent, becuase I agree with the sentiments quoted below, and based on your quoted commnents above, it shows what you’d fill the vessels with. :mad:
Hah.
Funny thing is that should anyone decide to intervene for the sake of kids because of permissive or oblivious parents they get suspended or arrested.
Why don’t you start a thread of your own on that topic, **phaishazamkhan **? Then you could discuss it at length, without hijacking this topic. It is tangentally related in a way, but it should have it’s own thread so people can discuss it fully.
No, no. I think it’s ok to start the discussion right here. With quotes such as “I hope you’re not a parent”; this thread has obviously run its course of usefulness. I hope, in turn, you also are not a parent…of a precious child trampled to death by drunken, wreckless teens (or whatever the fuck their ages).
hhhhhhhhh. :sighs longingly: