Nine teens charged in bullying suicide

Yeah, I'm pretty sure a lot of them learn it from other kids.

 

Yeah, corporal punishment was allowed until recently.

And back in the good old days when kids got their asses whooped in school then at home, there was still crime, and bad people. The prisons were always pretty full.

Corporal punishment isn't the answer. Period. That genie ain't going back in the bottle, so let's talk about something doable.

 

That never, ever happened in the history of the world before, right?

 

You have absolutely no proof of that. Like I said: If this had happened 40 years ago, unless it happened in your town, you would have never heard of it.

But people are now comparing the worst thing they remember about their school experience (in one, maybe a handful, of towns) vs. the worst thing they hear about from the entire sample of schools in the country today, because it's going to be national news no matter where it happens.

 

Maybe this guy wasn't paddled enough:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Whitman

Maybe the kid in this incident was secretly a transplant from the non-paddling future:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olean_High_School_shooting

 

Really walked into that one.

 

Sorry, I was trying to give you a good excuse for being wildly wrong. Maybe it was reported and you just don't remember.

Either way, you are wildy wrong.

I guess when a kid is paddled enough, he learns to shoot at people outside the school and not in it, so it doesn't count the same. Or something.

 

Yes, because comparing two crimes that were seen as shocking in their day because they rarely happened with the horrifying shit that has become all to common in an increasingly violent culture shows just how far we've advanced as a society. America is much more violent than it used to be. Although I'm not sure how that happened given the proliferation of geniuses and their collective knowledge regarding human behavior and punishment.

 

I'm willing to bet that when some of the boys came back from WWII, there was some pretty insane shit going on.

Either it was not reported, or they never were caught or the murders were never tied together due to poor communication.

 

Lies, damn lies and statistics. Plus, Rick, I don't think charts put together by arrogant sociologists are a valid or reliable measurement. I don't believe in them. The charts or the sociologists. [/thestupidkindofshitrickstainsayswhenhedisagreeswithadifferingopiniononasubject]

 

Probably true. There were much fewer geniuses back in the day who had all the answers.