Why So Surprised at Children's Violence?
Jun 13, 2023 8:55:05 GMT -5
Post by Radrook Admin on Jun 13, 2023 8:55:05 GMT -5
I keep reading and hearing adults wondering why the young people of today seem to be so violently inclined and seem to hold human life in such low esteem. I also keep wondering why they are so amazed. After all, adults provide the kids with games that feature violence
wherein human life is considered veritably of no value at all.
In these games, there is never any calm reasoning between persons who disagree or strongly dislike one another. The solution is always to try to destroy the other person via violence. These video games have the child mowing down hordes of humans as if mere blades of grass and getting positive reinforcement by receiving a high score and various other accolades which leave the child feeling exceedingly proud of what he or she has just done.
So when facing similar situations that evoke frustration in the real world, what does the child, or brainwashed young adult, tend to do? They do exactly what they have been trained or programmed to do all their lives. They strike out violently and feel elated when they succeed in leaving the other human either dead or lying senseless on the ground, of course. Considering the intense programing towards violence they have constantly undergone during all the previous formative years and continue to experience under the guidance of the adult world that they depend on to learn right from wrong, what else can be expected?
Yet, it is the same adult world that programs them to behave in these violent ways that seems to be utterly dumbfounded and incapable of making the very easy connection between the indoctrination of its children into violence and its children's violent behavior.
Why? Beats me! It should be an easily observable cause and effect phenomenon that anyone of normal intelligence should be capable of perceiving. It is similar to providing games with theft as entertainment and which reward thievery, and then expressing extreme surprise when our kids become thieves. Or rewarding dishonesty via lying in the games we provided them with, and then going about claiming not to understand why our kids have become pathological liars. The same applies to any other anti-social behavior that we might irresponsibly offer as entertainment to our kids. The results should be obvious and predictable.
This, of course, begs the question as to why? Not surprisingly, the reason, as usual in such cases, is money. The companies that are manufacturing the games and the merchants distributing them are out to make a profit. Which, of course, will provide the federal government with sales taxes, making the government itself reluctant to stop the manufacturing and the sales.
It is similar to how the tobacco industry disregarded the health of its customers even though it knew that cancer had been linked to their product and how the Federal government was reluctant to step in because of the taxes. In short, when there is money involved, our health and our social well-being takes second place, and there is no way that the link between damage and the product will be willingly made by those raking in the dough.
wherein human life is considered veritably of no value at all.
In these games, there is never any calm reasoning between persons who disagree or strongly dislike one another. The solution is always to try to destroy the other person via violence. These video games have the child mowing down hordes of humans as if mere blades of grass and getting positive reinforcement by receiving a high score and various other accolades which leave the child feeling exceedingly proud of what he or she has just done.
So when facing similar situations that evoke frustration in the real world, what does the child, or brainwashed young adult, tend to do? They do exactly what they have been trained or programmed to do all their lives. They strike out violently and feel elated when they succeed in leaving the other human either dead or lying senseless on the ground, of course. Considering the intense programing towards violence they have constantly undergone during all the previous formative years and continue to experience under the guidance of the adult world that they depend on to learn right from wrong, what else can be expected?
Yet, it is the same adult world that programs them to behave in these violent ways that seems to be utterly dumbfounded and incapable of making the very easy connection between the indoctrination of its children into violence and its children's violent behavior.
Why? Beats me! It should be an easily observable cause and effect phenomenon that anyone of normal intelligence should be capable of perceiving. It is similar to providing games with theft as entertainment and which reward thievery, and then expressing extreme surprise when our kids become thieves. Or rewarding dishonesty via lying in the games we provided them with, and then going about claiming not to understand why our kids have become pathological liars. The same applies to any other anti-social behavior that we might irresponsibly offer as entertainment to our kids. The results should be obvious and predictable.
This, of course, begs the question as to why? Not surprisingly, the reason, as usual in such cases, is money. The companies that are manufacturing the games and the merchants distributing them are out to make a profit. Which, of course, will provide the federal government with sales taxes, making the government itself reluctant to stop the manufacturing and the sales.
It is similar to how the tobacco industry disregarded the health of its customers even though it knew that cancer had been linked to their product and how the Federal government was reluctant to step in because of the taxes. In short, when there is money involved, our health and our social well-being takes second place, and there is no way that the link between damage and the product will be willingly made by those raking in the dough.