[ExI] the really important urgent issues

[Kevin Freels]

The problem children you describe are not representative of the entire 
generation. I assure you that there are many good kids out there and 
they far outnumber the evil little devils described here. However, you 
are right that this is changing. Educated people are not having children 
at the same rate as the grown-up versions of these problem children. 
These kids are going out, getting pregnant at 14-19 years old, having 
several children. They are unable to guide them and nurture them into 
responsible lives so they repeat the cycle. Meanwhile, those who are 
well educated go on to college, get a career started and then MAY have 1 
or 2 children when they are over 25.

There is some good here though. Fortunately I happen to believe that 
much of "natural" behavior is genetic and that children will only 
unlearn those traits through conditioning. The underlying genetic 
behavior then would remain to be passed on. So there are still good kids 
that come out of bad homes and vice versa. In the end, I'm not sure it's 
enough to stop this trend completely, but it at least can slow it. What 
we educated folks need to do now is have more babies.(This should save 
many economies from disaster as well but that's another topic)



ablainey at aol.com wrote:
> That occurred to to afterward, but it makes you wonder what if 
> anything the parents would do about it? After all, they are the ones 
> that have been responsible for the moral education of these young 
> un's. Haven't they done well so far !.Likewise I think the law is 
> flaccid when it comes to this kind of behaviour in kids this age. 
> Teachers are no longer allowed to deal out discipline and even parents 
> are limited and watched like hawks under the guise of 'protecting kids 
> from abuse'.
> I am truly worried for the next generation of '/I want it now, you 
> cant do nuffin, I am the centre of the universe' /kids. They clearly 
> have their heads up their owns arses and have no respect for anyone or 
> anything. At least we had respect and a healthy dose of fear.
> Very troubling indeed.
>
> Alex
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff Davis <jrd1415 at gmail.com>
> To: ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> Sent: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 21:10
> Subject: Re: [ExI] the really important urgent issues
>
> On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 6:06 PM,  <ablainey at aol.com <mailto:ablainey at aol.com>> wrote:
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> >  ...I caught a 10 year old kid scrumping apples from one of my trees.
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> > He shouted 'Yeah F at ck @ff, You can't do
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> > anything you F at cking C at nt!!!' The whole group then started shouting words
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> > they shouldn't know and started throwing stones at my windows!
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> Interesting.
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> I wonder if you could make a video of their behavior and then post it
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> to you tube and my space/facebook.
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> And then send a heads up to their parents, though you might not have to.
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> Best, Jeff Davis
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