Originally Posted by BlackCrayon

so lets ban tv and all this will go away?...bullshit! there were a lot of violent tv shows in the 60's. heck, even charles manson's "family" said they grew up with violence all around them especially on tv naming shows like gunsmoke, have gun will travel, etc. also i am tired of people saying kids need to be beat more to stay in line. stats show kids who are victims of such violence are far more likely to commit violent acts themselves. just because it may have made you more subdued doesn't mean it does for everyone.

i don't think there is one pinpoint but i'd say kids being over medicated along with the breakdown of community are a couple of them. no one knows their neighbors anymore, no one cares about their neighbors anymore. life is so much more anonymous but online everyone knows everything about everyone else if they choose to share it. you can blame news media to some degree, news is so immediate and constant and everyone hangs on its last word but that is really society's fault itself rather than the media. they are just giving what people eat up. we are all monsters of our own creation.