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http://www.tampatrib.com/...3GG9E.html






How can there be so little regard for human life now?

why does this stuff get press coverage? let the girl's soul rest and let the family deal with it with privacy and dignity. ugh.

AsianBoi777 said:

Or ever?

Why does it even get a thread created in its honor??...

Byron said:

These damn parents should watch their kids, this is too sad...the same with the little girl that stabbed the 11 year old.

sad , im speechless.

terrible
some kids that are 11 & 12 have been arrested here for trying to strangle a 5 year old

Raine said:

Speculation at the moment is they tried to hang the 5 year old

It's fucked up and crazy, huh

AsianBoi777 said:

Jayza

What the hell is going on here.....

I had to hear the other night about a 7 year old girl STABBING HER 11 year old friend in the chest over a fuckin ball.....

Now this shit?? Where are these children thinking this violence is ok.. furthermore where are the parents when all of this is going on?????

I am not even making a detailed comment on this story, because it only makes me sick....

I hope that kid gets locked up in a detention center and beaten by his bully of a friend for a few years.. UGH!!!!!
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There are no word.....It's all just so sad.....I hope things get better before they get worse.....

I understand that kids don't always fully grasp the value of human life.

But what disturbed me about this story is that the kid felt no remorse. It was as if he was just doing a chore and reflecting upon it.

Dammit..... This is terrible.....

These teen boys in a school tried to make a mentally disable girl perform oral sex on them, other kids were just watching and the principal got in trouble because she took awhile to report it, she was afraid of how the media would affect the school.

where do you suppose children are getting these ideas? hellevision anyone?

XxAxX said:

yep, sad

unlucky7 said:

scary too because we KNOW it's bad for kids, but what's happening to adults who absorb so much violence in the form of entertainment?

XxAxX said:

We've become desensitized to voilence.

Just think about Starwars :Revenge of the Sith. Aniken catches on fire and his flesh burns right before our eyes--but this wasn't enough to get an R rating. 20 years ago, it would have been a guaranteed R.

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XxAxX said:

people were removing their kids from Revenge of the Sith when i went.
half of them were crying

AsianBomb777 said:

i know. the thing i hate most is when a movie combines sex and violence, so that the viewers are conditioned to experience sexual arousal in connection with violent acts. it's the worst, imo

XxAxX said:

Yup.
It's one thing to see Tits and Ass in the Blue Lagoon or even softcore porn.

But, when you combine it with some violent action movie, it gets unerving.

I think parents rely too much on directors and the powers that be to control and regulate what their children see--it really needs to be on the parents.

I for one am going to say something controversial. I do know shit happens. However, I feel that you wouldn't have HALF of this shit happening if people just spent more time with their children. It's not the fact that they can see fucked up shit. It's that the parents aren't taking the time to discuss why that stuff is not OKAY. Why it is only FICTION. You'd be amazed at how something so little as just discussing things with your children would solve half of these fucked up incidents.


Just my two cents.

jerseykrs said:

Dude, you sound sooooo HAWT.

AsianBomb777 said:

Can't you just say, hey, good point Chris!

jerseykrs said:

I couldn't agree with you more. Talking to your kids can and will make all the difference in the world. That's why we have so many grown people who hate their parents because they wouldn't spend any time with them when they were kids.
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Anxiety said:

Is this so we can keep pretending that television, music, video games, and movies aren't promoting and creating a culture of violence?

People (including people who have agreed with the basic premis of a cultural desensitation to ivolence on this thread) get up in arms whenever the FCC tries to act but maybe they need to take it a step further.

I guess it's because it's perceived as a "right" issue.

Byron said:

We can't keep ignoring the problem. As a society we need to come up with solutions. At some point we have to realize that we are not cultivating a healthy group of children and we need to look at root causes.

lovemachine said:

I'm not really for censoring the material.
What I'd like to see is a campaign of awareness and education around it.
Children should not grow up thinking that human life is of no value. And their parents are to blame in my eyes.

I mean, parents get all up in arms now when teachers tell them that their children are "misbehaved" or "uncontrollable". What some kids need is a good ass whoopin'.

However, I don't think cernsoring the material is the right way to go about it. I don't mind public warnings and labeling--as a matter of fact I'm very much and advocate of that.

I think the issue, however, is more pervasive than art or culture on a mundane level. I think it speaks to a spiritual lack or void in our hearts. As Americans, we've started to value entertainment more than education and disclipline.

I'm rambling aren't I?

People have been doing horrible things to each other for ever. Before TV. I do blame TV for telling us about every atrocity that ever occurs these days and bringing into our livings rooms on the 9 o'clock Bad News. There is never any good news anymore, just bad stuff.