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cock fights and witch burnings involved harm to another living creature. When you shoot someone in Doom, you're not taking a life as we presently define it. Nice try.
If we were all merely products of our environment, then we'd all have been dead long ago. I know I would have gone on a killing/torture spree to gain the Dark Powers of Ravenloft...*EG*
Devon
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Questions answered in the order in which they appear in your post:
1. You know how it can happen but I'll answer the why aspect. To my knowledge, there's no concrete proof that violence in the media is the cause of violence in today's youth, but that doesn't stop glory-hungry politicians from using ignorance to further themselves and/or their personal agendas at the cost of most everyone else's happiness. If you don't like what's happening, start paying attention to what government officials are doing in your area, state, right up to the Federal level, then GET THE FACTS THEN SPEAK UP...VOTE(when you're legally able to). There's no excuse not to take part. You can even at least leave an email for your reps/senators and to the president!
2. see #1.
3. The way someone dresses is no concrete indication of what drives them, psychologically speaking. It's more manipulation of adult cluelessness by unethical politicians. What gives the authority figure the right to judge you based on how you dress is how ignorant you are of the system in which the authority figure works and more importantly, how ignorant you are of the laws that govern how said authority figure is required to "deal" with you.
4. I don't have kids, but I tell my cat I love 'im even though he upstages me with his cuteness!
5. The nation is indeed supposed to be about freedom for everyone, but it is up to each person to aggressively DEFEND those freedoms. That means knowing the law and making sure that people who could potentially be abusive toward you are aware that you KNOW the law that governs them too. It is up to YOU to do your part to protect your freedoms. Don't expect everyone else to guard your freedom for you. If you don't like a bunch of old men sitting on their little thrones telling you what to do then GET TOGETHER WITH YOUR FRIENDS in your town AND on the net and get ready to VOTE their lame asses OUT when you are all ready and able to. "Those who will trade liberty for a measure of safety shall have neither."(paraphrased)
6. You have to pay an adult ticket to watch a movie even though you're not allowed to watch an R-rated movie because that's how the MOVIE THEATER CHAIN decided the ticket pricing should be set up. That's a business decision as far as I know, and the only way you can change that would be to boycott the theater chain, again that requires LONG TERM EFFORT...something many people in this country are afraid of.
Yes it is time for a change, but no, most adults are too comfortable with, or defeated by, things the way they are to WORK to change them, that's why I'm saying it is up to YOU and your friends and their friends and their friends to agree on things that need to change, then to start VOICING your opinion and to RESPECTFULLY let those old foagies in your city, state, and even Washington DC, realize that you(the group of you) will soon be registered voters whose needs and wants they'd better start paying attention to.
You're right, kids have fewer and fewer choices these days, and then adults have the GALL to be surprised when you all do something outlandish in order to express your displeasure with things. What you're going through isn't anything new, been happening for a while. The only difference now is that you kids have easier access to information so adults are finding harder and harder to manipulate your ignorance to control you. GET INVOLVED, LEARN AND KNOW THE LAWS. LEARN HOW FAR THEY'RE ALLOWED TO GO.
7. The point of detention in high school is not to teach you anything, though administrators will argue otherwise(and maybe innocently so).
8. I'm not a teacher, but I don't think they get paid by the hour. I think they're on a fixed, and rather shitty, salary.
9. The only thing that detention teaches kids is to be more careful next time while they're doing something defined as wrong by school administrators drunk on their pseudo-power or whom are being pressured by clueless higher level school board officials(who are probably being pressured by hypersensitive, lazy parents) to put these rules into place.
10. Democracy has no place in the school system. Besides America is not a Democratic country. It is a REPUBLIC. BIG DIFFERENCE. If you want to lay the smack down on a school admin, you have to do it *LEGALLY*, that means you have to be aware of what rules or laws say what they can and cannot do with/to you, and you have to be sure they know that you are WATCHING THEIR EVERY STEP. Nothing scares an adult more than being under constant threat of being labeled incompetent or worse.
11. The America you read about in history books is mostly propaganda. If you'd like to find out some interesting facts about american history, I'd suggest finding a book entitled Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen.
If you don't like what is happening, then it is up to YOU to GET INVOLVED with your government on the community, city, county, state, and federal levels and to VOICE YOUR OPINION and to get all your friends to do the same thing and for them to get their friends to do the same thing, so on and so forth. The reason why this country is setup this way is because young voters AREN'T VOTING. Senior citizens rule this country via their votes. Why else do you think the main theme of these elections centers around social security and medicare and such??? Because OLD PEOPLE VOTE. That's why the last presidential nominees spent so very little time on issues young people are facing as compared to issues old people are facing.
Let's put emphasis on the word ENCOURAGE. If the true saviors of the U.S.'s overall political well-being, MODERATES, must continue to humour these fringe nutballs by giving them a chance to serve the public, I would highly recommend self-regulatory-with-benefits measures like the example you mentioned.
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If you want to know how ANY elected official has voted, go to vote-smart.org
cock fights and witch burnings involved harm to another living creature. When you shoot someone in Doom, you're not taking a life as we presently define it. Nice try.
If we were all merely products of our environment, then we'd all have been dead long ago. I know I would have gone on a killing/torture spree to gain the Dark Powers of Ravenloft...*EG*
Devon
Questions answered in the order in which they appear in your post:
1. You know how it can happen but I'll answer the why aspect. To my knowledge, there's no concrete proof that violence in the media is the cause of violence in today's youth, but that doesn't stop glory-hungry politicians from using ignorance to further themselves and/or their personal agendas at the cost of most everyone else's happiness. If you don't like what's happening, start paying attention to what government officials are doing in your area, state, right up to the Federal level, then GET THE FACTS THEN SPEAK UP...VOTE(when you're legally able to). There's no excuse not to take part. You can even at least leave an email for your reps/senators and to the president!
2. see #1.
3. The way someone dresses is no concrete indication of what drives them, psychologically speaking. It's more manipulation of adult cluelessness by unethical politicians. What gives the authority figure the right to judge you based on how you dress is how ignorant you are of the system in which the authority figure works and more importantly, how ignorant you are of the laws that govern how said authority figure is required to "deal" with you.
4. I don't have kids, but I tell my cat I love 'im even though he upstages me with his cuteness!
5. The nation is indeed supposed to be about freedom for everyone, but it is up to each person to aggressively DEFEND those freedoms. That means knowing the law and making sure that people who could potentially be abusive toward you are aware that you KNOW the law that governs them too. It is up to YOU to do your part to protect your freedoms. Don't expect everyone else to guard your freedom for you. If you don't like a bunch of old men sitting on their little thrones telling you what to do then GET TOGETHER WITH YOUR FRIENDS in your town AND on the net and get ready to VOTE their lame asses OUT when you are all ready and able to. "Those who will trade liberty for a measure of safety shall have neither."(paraphrased)
6. You have to pay an adult ticket to watch a movie even though you're not allowed to watch an R-rated movie because that's how the MOVIE THEATER CHAIN decided the ticket pricing should be set up. That's a business decision as far as I know, and the only way you can change that would be to boycott the theater chain, again that requires LONG TERM EFFORT...something many people in this country are afraid of.
Yes it is time for a change, but no, most adults are too comfortable with, or defeated by, things the way they are to WORK to change them, that's why I'm saying it is up to YOU and your friends and their friends and their friends to agree on things that need to change, then to start VOICING your opinion and to RESPECTFULLY let those old foagies in your city, state, and even Washington DC, realize that you(the group of you) will soon be registered voters whose needs and wants they'd better start paying attention to.
You're right, kids have fewer and fewer choices these days, and then adults have the GALL to be surprised when you all do something outlandish in order to express your displeasure with things. What you're going through isn't anything new, been happening for a while. The only difference now is that you kids have easier access to information so adults are finding harder and harder to manipulate your ignorance to control you. GET INVOLVED, LEARN AND KNOW THE LAWS. LEARN HOW FAR THEY'RE ALLOWED TO GO.
7. The point of detention in high school is not to teach you anything, though administrators will argue otherwise(and maybe innocently so).
8. I'm not a teacher, but I don't think they get paid by the hour. I think they're on a fixed, and rather shitty, salary.
9. The only thing that detention teaches kids is to be more careful next time while they're doing something defined as wrong by school administrators drunk on their pseudo-power or whom are being pressured by clueless higher level school board officials(who are probably being pressured by hypersensitive, lazy parents) to put these rules into place.
10. Democracy has no place in the school system. Besides America is not a Democratic country. It is a REPUBLIC. BIG DIFFERENCE. If you want to lay the smack down on a school admin, you have to do it *LEGALLY*, that means you have to be aware of what rules or laws say what they can and cannot do with/to you, and you have to be sure they know that you are WATCHING THEIR EVERY STEP. Nothing scares an adult more than being under constant threat of being labeled incompetent or worse.
11. The America you read about in history books is mostly propaganda. If you'd like to find out some interesting facts about american history, I'd suggest finding a book entitled Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen.
If you don't like what is happening, then it is up to YOU to GET INVOLVED with your government on the community, city, county, state, and federal levels and to VOICE YOUR OPINION and to get all your friends to do the same thing and for them to get their friends to do the same thing, so on and so forth. The reason why this country is setup this way is because young voters AREN'T VOTING. Senior citizens rule this country via their votes. Why else do you think the main theme of these elections centers around social security and medicare and such??? Because OLD PEOPLE VOTE. That's why the last presidential nominees spent so very little time on issues young people are facing as compared to issues old people are facing.
Devon
I second that proposition!...:)))
Let's put emphasis on the word ENCOURAGE. If the true saviors of the U.S.'s overall political well-being, MODERATES, must continue to humour these fringe nutballs by giving them a chance to serve the public, I would highly recommend self-regulatory-with-benefits measures like the example you mentioned.