An Insight Into Why Kids Are Shooting Other Kids

[FUD]

An interesting insight ... <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>WE REAP WHAT WE SOE
Clarence Schultz, U.S. Navy Chaplain (retired)

With all the increasing violence in and out of schools, what in the world is happening with our kids today? Let's see ... Madeline Murray O'Hare complained that she didn't want any prayer in our schools, and we said OK.

Then someone said you had better not read the Bible in school. The Bible that says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.

Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't discipline our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem. And we said, well, an expert should know what he's talking about so we won't do it anymore.

Then someone said that teachers and principals better not discipline our children when they misbehave. And the school administrators said no staff member in this school had better discipline a student when they misbehave because we don't want any bad publicity, and we surely don't want to be sued. We accepted their reasoning.

Then someone said, let's let our daughters have abortions if they want and they won't even have to tell their parents. And we said, hey, that's a grand idea.

Then some wise school board member said, since boys will be boys and they're going to "do it" anyway, let's give our sons all the condoms they want so they can have all the "fun" they desire, and we won't have to tell their parents they got them at school. And we said, that's another great idea.

And then some of our top elected officials said that it doesn't matter what we do in private as long as we do our jobs. And agreeing with them, we said it doesn't matter to me what anyone, including the President, does in private as long as I have a job and the economy is good.

And someone took and published pictures of nude children and made them available on the internet. And we said, they're entitled to their free speech.

And the entertainment industry said, let's make TV shows and movies that promote profanity, violence, and illicit sex. And let's record music that encourages rape, drugs, murder, suicide, and satanic themes. And we said, it's just entertainment that has no adverse effect, and nobody takes it seriously anyway so go right ahead.

So, now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves. Probably, if we think about it long enough and hard enough, we can figure it out. Maybe it has to do with "we reap what we sow."

[/quote]Share what you know, learn what you don't -- FUD

 

[ctdonath]

That missed one thing: taking all the above, and then drugging the kids with Ritalin, Prozac, and/or other mood-and-morals-altering antidepressants. Apparently all the high-profile school killers were on this stuff. Such drugs calm the mind and help one focus on and carry out what one decides needs to be done...which may be play "Doom" in non-virtual reality.

 

[Wayne Dobbs]

Right on the money, Reverand!

What a radical concept: we raise kids with standards, morals and honor and we get good kids. We do just the opposite and we get bad kids (and REALLY BAD ADULTS).

Maybe we could get the government to study this...what do y'all think??!!

 

[DC]

It all boils down to a petty alleviation of guilt, a short time feel good.

Throughout the history of humanity, there have been moral standards. As well there has always been a small percent who violate those standards to the maximum, another percent who violate to a lesser degree, and so on and so on. Some never violate these standards at all.

Later some of these "violators" feel no remorse whatsoever, and the rest feel remorse to varying degrees and alter their behavior closer to the moral standard in varying degrees.

The moral standards are sometimes law and most are just behavior guidelines. When they are behavior guidelines, there is no real or permanent punishment for violation (i.e death or prison)...just social distain/disappointment. That does, however, influence a large segment of the population...it prompts them to wish to alter their behavior.....it is the substance of something known as conscience.

As noted above, most moral standards do not have legal weight, thus all a violator can receive is some public/social distain and the force of their developed conscience.

Now, we have a society that is so personally selfish and indulgent, that we resent a moral standard that influences our conscience.

By removing the level of moral standards, we increase the level of violations. But, apparently it is better to have a "cleaner" conscience. Now,therefore, we can indulge our desires...no matter what the cost to others or society, without even paying the small price of guilt.


It is so much like Clinton...redefine what's wrong to do.



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