^^^ I'm not saying there should be no consequences, as I outlined before. I'm just saying it's hardly a 'what is wrong with the youth of today' type moment. We've heard childhood stories from people on this board, and I from my parents or elders that are as stupid.
Every generation looks at their own with rose colored glasses. Every generation cries about the one after them and how easy they have it or how entitled they are. It's just the way of the world. If things were getting progressively worse with each successive generation the world would have ended a long long time ago.
We see and hear about this stuff more because of the media we have, and the instant access to dumb stories. Not because it's happening more. Same as we all feel want to come down hard on crime and wonder where all these bad guys came from, when in fact we live in one of the safest cities, in one of the safest countries, in the safest period of time on earth!
It's just the bombardment of media man. Take a deep breath and look with a little honesty and perspective.
And as said before, I'm not against this boy/man getting punished. He does deserve some punishment for sure. I just wish some people on this board and in the world in general would give it a rest with 'dumb kids these days'. It's really not how it is at all.
In truth, all generations suck and are stupid. Probably pretty equally.
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