Games have always been seen as the root of most problems so this is no exception. I've still yet to see a valid argument for connecting games to violence. It's mostly opinions. I dont think there's really any connection but again, that's just an opinion.

Rock’n’roll has definitely inspired a lot of sexual promiscuity and physical violence. So has literature and film. I know very little about video games but I’m pretty sure they influence behavior as well. The important thing is that it’s still wrong to censor things even if they really do carry the gravitas to influence behavior.

I can somewhat agree with that. Video games aren't without fault but I'm more of a believer that the type of violence they're talking about is from something far more serious than violence in video games. I'm sure there are exceptions so it's not really black and white. But yes I agree that the other forms of media do have a part in it as well.

I lol at every explanation of school shootings that doesn’t start with school sucks.

sure but that’s only like half of them

hardly anyone is saying well maybe if school wasn’t so ****ing miserable

Aid is piling up on Venezuela's border. Here's why it's not getting in

What kind of monster turns down humanitarian arms?

A little cryptic. What’s your take on what’s going on down there?

Compulsory world wide. The few dozen or so yearly American corpses are just a footnote to the real tragedy: hundreds of millions of destroyed spirits.

Maduro's ****ed up but our intentions with the humanitarian aid is to open up a path for a humanitarian invasion.

It's both school and puberty being horrible and gun availability. Taking either of those factors away would solve the problem I think, because it does not exist in countries that lack one of them

https://i.imgflip.com/2ua85o.jpg

you know what I mean tho

The shootings are relatively inconsequential

The crushing of the human spirit is what we should be worried about

The actual shootings are like shark attacks or lightning strikes in that it’s hysterical to even give a ****

School shouldn’t be compulsory for kids any more than labor camps should be compulsory for adults

Did you find the whole school system that horrible? In my experience most problems with school stem from hoarding a bunch of teenagers together. The actual schooling could be mind-numbing sometimes but didn't bother me too much, I spent most of my school time making drawings. But of course you have a different perspective as a former teacher

I was pretty much ok with school

It’s not personal / as a teacher I met so many kids who weren’t suited for it

One story that I may have told before but years ago there was a bad hurricane and the power and water was out for weeks and I commented on how miserable it was and a student who was really delinquent, I mean in the ADULT criminal system said it was the best time of his life because he didn’t have to go to school and went fishing everyday and caught fish that he shared with people at a time when everyone was eating mres/

but if that kid went fishing instead of school when school was open they put him in jail

it might sound like what they dont put them in jail

but yes they do/ that’s the only way they can enforce the compulsory component

There’s millions like him

Some people are doubtlessly better off without school. Still I think the government should make sure that in general people are educated, but finding a balance between that and personal freedom and needs is complicated

School is not for you.

I always went, but I had a teacher who said that I skipped school mentally. Forcing kids to go is not that much use if you look at it that way: you can force them to go, but it's much harder to force them to participate

Dude, typo. My English isn't that bad

Get caught with half a joint put on probation/ school attendance and clean discipline gets written into it / a discipline referral is a violation / get locked up in juvie for getting written up for throwing spitballs and cussing in school while already on probation which is a violation/ get beaten up hard in juvie - then back into school with a ****ing ankle bracelet/ wander off to the river or beach / back to juvie / beaten up even sexually assaulted

Yes it is like that

You were lucky and white

What foreign languages can you write?

The problem is that it’s ****ing compulsory

Portuguese and Swahili.

Whatever, Hillary

You guys see my English at its very worst actually. It hurts my pride

Stop humblebragging.

No this is normal bragging, my English is seriously good for a foreigner, but I can make atrocious mistakes here

Your written English is better than some actual English people I went to school with.

You're Dutch though, so it's nothing special.

jk

prolly

I lol at every explanation that doesn't talk about the fucked up state of the American family.

Found the worst one:

I mean seriously...

Nah my English is also better than most Dutch people's

And mine's better than most Germans'/Soviets' so cheers. :beer:

I'm not talking about having a nuclear family or not. I'm talking about all the fucked up things that happen no matter what kind of family you have. The abuse is off the charts.

Mass shootings aren’t a problem

At worst it’s a symptom of a bigger disease

A small symptom at that


To what Mord is saying the deterioration of the family not just the splattering of the gray matter of 15 people at some high school a couple times a year

^I bet when someone in a nuclear family gets angry, they say "****s gonna get nuclear."

No?anyone?bueller?

Privet!

Привет, Флафф!

wow

;)

You're never gonna get banned like that.