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by chasfm11
Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:29 pm
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: ... and this is what is wrong with America
Replies: 28
Views: 2469

Re: ... and this is what is wrong with America

clarionite wrote: An entire generation of kids has been raised to believe they're entitled to what their parents and grandparents had to work hard to get. Rules don't apply to them. And they've got the right to do or say anything they want, without consequence. And a lot of it is our generations fault for coddling our kids.
:iagree: Time for the return of tough love.
by chasfm11
Wed Jun 06, 2012 8:11 am
Forum: The Crime Blotter
Topic: ... and this is what is wrong with America
Replies: 28
Views: 2469

Re: ... and this is what is wrong with America

george wrote:I think there is only one reason to conform to social norms, and that is fear of reprisal from either God, or the law.

If you do not believe in God, and you do not fear the law, why not do whatever you want?
...because, carried to its ultimate end, that means a dismissal of ALL of the rules of society and a reversion to the cave man like "survival of the fittest." The biggest baddest GUY on the block takes all of the food. I suspect that these two frail young females would not fare well in that kind of an arrangement. If these girls can just take what they want, so can anyone else. It would be interesting to have that conversation with them.

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