I've got some teacher friends - and every so often I hear stories that make me say "What the Fuck is going on."
I recently heard that the new 'in' thing for girls fighting is to beat a another girl up - and when they are down pour bleach and other chemicals in thier opponents face. Not just in their face - but in their eye's and in their mouth.
And as if that wasn't enough - these girls (rather fucking cowardly punk bitches) also toss bleach and cemicals in the faces of their teachers when the teacher has told them something they didn't want to hear.
WHY? You might be tempted to pick on the usual suspected causes for violent behaviour - Television, Movies, Video Games - But I don't think that any of these have ever been the direct cause of any violent behaviour. No. I think that in 95+% of the cases violence is caused by a failure to educate people on core/basic moral principals that are the foundations of civilization.
The only way a civilization works is if the people that are a part of it don't beat the shit out of each other and don't try and kill one another. There is no moral justification for violence. You may find arguments for some justification of violence (mind you, none that I will agree with), but there is certainly no MORAL justification for violence. Its pretty black and white - You Don't Beat Someone Up or Try to Kill Someone For Any Reason.
There is always a choice in everything we do. And those that commit acts of violence against others do so because they have made a choice to do so. What needs to be done is to educate people (and youth in particular) not to make that choice. Period.
Its pretty simple. It may not be simple to convince someone not to try and harm another - but the concept itself is simple.
Who should be teaching these ideas? Or rather who has failed to teach these concepts? Parents! Fucking right the parents. Yup the cry-me-a-river I can't take two minutes out of my busy day to teach my children the most basic of moral principles: Parents. The same parents that toss their hands up in the air and say "I can't control my kids."
Here's a clue for everyone out there - If your kids know 1 basic rule "Don't hurt yourself or others" - then you don't have to control them. They will know how to control themselves.
The only other place I can point blame is at every person that doesn't shame others for violent behavior. Shame used to be a powerful deterent. It appears as if there is no shame in being a violent person. In fact, far to many people take pride in their violence. There is no shame in having a violent friend. There should be.
And parents who have violent children should tell the children that they are ashamed of them and disappointed in them. They can still love them and comfort them and try and teach them to be better people - but the children must get the message that they have disappointed and shamed not only themselves but their parents as well.
andre
Posted by andre at May 1, 2004 03:31 PM