Is the Internet making us indifferent?

[Ozme52]

Let me ask you this: Do you think those snotty noised little bastards would think a little longer and harder about committing rape if they knew getting caught would mean they'd, quite literally, have to pay with their balls?

I wonder if their parents might have been a little more attentive if their genitals were at risk for their kid's bad behavior.

It's not that I wish to make light of the crime. But maybe we, as a society, need to make Parenting a high-school course.

[Isabelle90]

I wonder if their parents might have been a little more attentive if their genitals were at risk for their kid's bad behavior.

It's not that I wish to make light of the crime. But maybe we, as a society, need to make Parenting a high-school course.

Amen to that!!! The Internet has a plethora of benefits, but if misused can be equally as detrimental. Too many parents expect someone else (or thing such as Internet or video games or television) to look after their kids!!! Why have children if you don't plan to be involved with their lives!?!

How about making laws that require parents to be more responsible for their children's actions????

Oz, I don't know all of the facts in your friends' son's case, so I'm unsure as to how this one in particular would be affected if such laws were passed.....

[Ozme52]

Amen to that!!! The Internet has a plethora of benefits, but if misused can be equally as detrimental. Too many parents expect someone else (or thing such as Internet or video games or television) to look after their kids!!! Why have children if you don't plan to be involved with their lives!?!

How about making laws that require parents to be more responsible for their children's actions????

Oz, I don't know all of the facts in your friends' son's case, so I'm unsure as to how this one in particular would be affected if such laws were passed.....

It would have stopped the bully long ago... It would have made his parents responsible for his actions long before he became so belligerent that he attempted a rape... let alone threatening a repeat... let alone threatening this kid's life. Nothing can be done for an incident out of the blue... but if he hadn't been harangued by the bully's acts and threats, this kid would have been one of the good ones. His mistake was trying to deal with it on his own.

The downside from the kid's perspective is that his parents were separated and maybe if his dad was in the house he would have tried that venue... but he tried to shield his mom from that family and the potential that the bully would come after her too.