Amanda Todd Suicide

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.



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.

At your first rebuttal: I was going off my own experiences. I know there's a bunch of societal douchebags in every generation, but to me it's just become more apparent in the newer generation, though I suppose that can be blamed also on the widespread thing we call the internet- it just brought things so together, we see into each others lives much more significantly than we had before. My thoughts behind this is the fact that the younger generation has grown up in a world where everything is linked together and thus they explore a world in which not even the government has managed to control (yet?). And because of this connectivity, they see and do things much more easily under the assumption that everything is "safe" to do and that whatever someone tells them is obviously true. It's just weird to think about what would happen if my generation, or my parents generation, grew up with the internet as a main media format- would events like this have happened back then? Maybe yes, maybe no. We'll see what happens in time. I do suppose I'm basing this too much on observation, so for that, I am sorry.

At your second point: I do agree kids make stupid mistakes and decisions, but again, from my experience, the newer internet-borne generation doesn't seem to learn from their mistakes. It's hard to blame the internet because it gives us so much, but it really does take away just as much, if not more. The media can explode on this story on all mediums- the internet just makes their influence all that much more significant. I just find it sad how our first world society doesn't even know what the other 3/4 of the world is experiencing. Just like how stupid people on the internet said "lol revenge for pearl Harbor" when Japan got hit by the 8.9 earthquake or the idiot people who would just spam #KNOY2012 without knowing that IC wasn't the absolute best "charity" to throw their money at. It's as if people don't seem to think for themselves and it feels awful. Perhaps if people learned to think things through before they acted, more of this stuff wouldn't happen. But I suppose that's what our parents thought about our generation and how our grandparents thought about our parents' generation. The cycle, I suppose, continues. We just have to adjust to the new and up and coming ways that our children and our children's children will be able to hurt themselves (un)intentionally.