2012-10-16, 11:37 AM
Worthyness Wrote:The population, especially the younger generations, are a bunch of spoiled rotten brats that take all that we, in our society, have, for granted. They don't care about the other people in the world and are all selfish (generally speaking- I obviously know that there are some good people out there).
Umm this is bulls'hit. It isn't that the younger generation is spoiled and that they take things for granted that we have a messed up society, but the problem is that MOST people do not give a s'hit about others in the world. Many people regardless of age are selfish and uncaring, but there are also those who do care. I agree with your underlieing point, but it is ridiculous to blame society's problems on adolescents.
Worthyness Wrote:I agree that there is way too much attention on this one girl's suicide and it is a shame that someone this young found it necessary to take her own life- no one should ever feel the need to do that. Regardless, kids these days can't seem to make the right decisions and those wrong decisions that they do make are amplified ten fold purely by means of the internet. This is just one girl who made one bad decision and it followed her to her grave and beyond. Will her death spark some sort of counter-bullying program? probably not. Will people remember her in a month or so? Probably not. It's unfortunate that she had to take her life, but it inst like this hasn't exactly happened before.
Kids will always make stupid decisions. That is what makes them kids and is a part of growing up. I do agree with you that involving the internet in those decisions tends to make things a lot worse, but what [MENTION=3755]Raph589[/MENTION]; was saying is that it is amazing that so many people die all over the world from curable ails (like hunger or dehydration), but when one white girl kills herself, the media goes nuts. I understand that this happened in Canada, which is a developed country close to the United States, and that it brings up real issues of current concern, but it is incredible how people nit-pick what they want to discuss on a societal scale.
[MENTION=1152]byakugan[/MENTION];
With the whole Kony thing, I think a lot of people were amazed by how many people were pretending to care or acting like they cared just to jump on the "I'm conscious of things!" bandwagon when they were all too aware that two weeks from now, nobody was going to give a dam. Then there were those who made assumptions or donations without actually getting all the facts. I think it really depends how society goes about trying to obtain awareness for issues and the reasons they try to gain awareness that causes people to think things are stupid.