Chocolate Blades of Thunder

[magglis]

The good old threads are back

[Robstar]

The good old threads are back

Which ones would they be?

[Darkside Ron Garvin]

I'm so pissed at the WWE!!!


I am going to quit watching them because the Royal Rumble was such bullshit!!!



*This is the theme of the majority of Blogs I expect posted in the next 72 hours*

[Dennis]

I blame it on the generation who are beginning to be of age to be called "adults", yet have been told to blame their problems on ANYTHING other than themselves. It's a generation who spent hours secluded away from friends and spent the majority of their young lives being ignored by parents, not having friends outside of Sub Zero, Scorpion, and the primary character from GTA 3, and get their precious little asses patted and filled with the flavor of the month prescription that the children’s psychologist is pushing that month. Now, when they are confronted with a situation that requires rational thinking, they are ill prepared and regress to the "Eye for a Life" syndrome in that they will kill because someone called them a loser.


The coin is two sided in that the bullies have become unbearable when in the past a parent would have stepped in had they known how mean their child was acting, but I blame both cases (be it the bully who snaps, or the victim of being bullied for too long) on the fact that parents would rather accept a medical condition that needs the treatment from medication that we don't have a clue how it will affect our bodies 10, 20, 30 years down the road as a suitable answer for their children acting out, rather than taking the time to place discipline, love, and understanding with their children.


Since the majority of these "crazies" come from a background of broken homes or neglectful parents, I am placing the blame on them for committing the act, but also the parents who sent them into the world without preparing them for just how "rough" and "mean" the world can be to an individual.

I think the blame game is kind of a slippery slope bro. Here is why I say that.

So lets say there is a kid who is bullied for his entire life. Lets say that kid is bullied by someone much larger than him, and the parents of both children do as much as a parent in that situation should do but the one child just picks on the smaller child. And now lets say the smaller child has something like selective mutism (which is the same disorder that the person who shot up VT had) so he already likely going to be ostracized, but this just puts more pressure on him, and further makes him an outsider. Lets say at the age of 16 (9 years before someone actually has a brain at full maturity) does a tragic event like a mass shooting... This is obviously tragic but lets see how we can place the blame.
1) You can blame the child who did it which is easy to do because obviously he did it.
2) Even though the parents still did every thing they could the child was able to get a gun, so it's partly their fault because he is under 18.
3) You can blame the bully for ostracizing said child.
4) You can blame society for not protecting this child from bullying.
5) You can blame the schools for a lack of safety.
6) You can blame a lack of a good mental health system.
I could keep going but you get the point. There just is too much blame to go around. Instead of worrying about what went wrong, worry about how to fix it.

I think the only real solution to the problem is to try to stop these things from happening as much as possible via better mental health check ups, and to make sure our children do not feel ostracized (which is the case in most mass shooting). Obviously you are never going to get rid of all the crazies though, these events will always happen. The only way to eliminate shootings is to get rid of guns, which isn't going to happen. Because even if you destroy the thought in one persons mind, you can't always stop it in others. Some people just want the fame that comes from events like this... While you might be able to reduce the chances of an event like this, pretending like you could eliminate them would be vastly naive.

[Dennis]

Just watched a commercial and the dialog was confusing.
First Mom" Does my kid seem a little slow"
Second Mom "well you are what you eat"
How do you eat slowness?

[Robstar]

Just watched a commercial and the dialog was confusing.
First Mom" Does my kid seem a little slow"
Second Mom "well you are what you eat"
How do you eat slowness?

I don't know Dennis - what ARE you eating?

[Dennis]

I don't know Dennis - what ARE you eating?

I shouldn't of expected funny comments from that post.

[B-MCINTYRE]

I shouldn't of expected funny comments from that post.

Your facial expressions are weird...

[Dennis]

Your facial expressions are weird...

eh, fair enough.

[SouthernBlood]

Don't be flyin around without tellin me!