What on earth is wrong with these people.

[Bugsy]

Just watching Animal Rescue and they are reporting on a 17 year-old who shot and killed a family of Swans with an air rifle. The female survived but not the male or the three cygnets.

He was given a referral order and fined £60 ffs.

The other case recently of two teenagers in Dorset beating a baby deer to death is  yet another example.

It just makes me so bloody angry. [:@]

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[Megan le Fey]

I can't imagine what it is with them either.  Perhaps there were always some evil, vicious young monsters around and our better communications are making us more aware of them than we were then but I don't really think so.  I suppose it could be that fewer young people go home from school today to the supervision of their mother, their tea and to do their homework, instead  mother is out at work helping to maintain the lifestyle which everyone believes we need in order to remain human.  Whatever it is, I cannot remember a single instance of serious animal cruelty involving any young people in the towns where I grew up (Ramsey, Isle of Man, Carlisle and Dumfries).  There was certainly never, ever a shooting or stabbing of another person which is a daily event today.  Even worse is the fact that these teens are going to grow up (if they avoid being killed by their peers) and become parents themselves.  What kind of ethics are they going to pass on the their kids?

[valB]

I watched it this morning as well and I felt sick. These yobs will never learn as they are never given any real punishment for the crimes they commit.  I still love my homeland but I do despair at times but then it goes on everywhere but maybe other countries have a more severe punishment who knows.

[Rowan]

Their Gameboys had probably run out of batteries. I think a lot of kids can't differentiate between computer games and reality. Not that I am excusing them in any way, I would happily inflict all sorts of horrible punishments on them. But at the same time I do think it is something that has gone wrong with society in general. My parents would have beaten the crap out of me for doing anything like this.

[Megan le Fey]

[quote user="Rowan"]Their Gameboys had probably run out of batteries. I think a lot of kids can't differentiate between computer games and reality. Not that I am excusing them in any way, I would happily inflict all sorts of horrible punishments on them. But at the same time I do think it is something that has gone wrong with society in general. My parents would have beaten the crap out of me for doing anything like this.[/quote]

Yes, my parents would have too but in today's world they aren't allowed to.  I wish the government could find a way to differentiate between abuse and discipline and then legislate accordingly. I think that if the government had minded it's own bl***y business in the first place and let parents bring up their kids the way their own parents brought them up, there would have been far less child abuse than there is and far fewer feral kids who think that they can get away, literally, with murder - of people or animals. 

Sorry - rant over for now[:@]

[Hoddy]

I think it's worse and more widespread than we think. Yesterday I read the first 114 pages of the report into the Staffordshire Hospital debacle. On the news, quite rightly I suppose, the emphasis has been on the management and political issues. In the end however the awful things that were done to the patients were done by staff. Some of the people who worked there were unbelievably callous. I was shocked at how easily everyone else could be blamed for what was at the lowest face to face level, cruelty.

With examples like this what can we expect from our young people ?

Hoddy

[JohnRoss]

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/14763/does_television_cause_violence.html

http://www.ridgenet.org/szaflik/tvrating.htm

 

Says it all really. Maybe we were lucky in not having exposure until our early teens, well where I lived in the South there was no TV transmitter, too far from Crystal Palace, until I was 13 or 14. Thinking about there was much less violence in programmes at that time or at least the ones I was allowed to watch. Reality and fiction does becomes blurred for youngsters for sure...............................JR