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To: Tom Clarke who wrote (8806)	3/16/2001 10:03:59 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 82486

>Fifty years ago, there was no drug education in schools. School personnel did not forcibly administer drugs to children, and children did not use or abuse drugs, legal or illegal. Children also received neither sex education nor condoms in schools--and there were fewer teen pregnancies. < I am ROFL. 50 years ago their were LOTS of little alcoholic kids. I know because my dad was one of them. He and his friends started drinking when they were just kids. That's a drug- this guy is full of crappola. Children did not mature sexually as fast- not factored in at all here. Many girls could NOT have gotten pregnant because they weren't starting their periods in their early teens (NO ONE- imo- is taking the early maturation of teens seriously enough- this is a huge component of the problem). 50 years ago if you were a misfit you could be institutionalized much more easily than today. 50 years ago society allowed people to express a lot more cruelty and hatred than it allows people to express now. 50 years ago if you were full if hate you could go out and beat up blacks- and nobody really cared. You could tie firecrackers to a cat, or beat your dog, and nobody would do anything. Isn't that neat? There is a lot less MASS cruelty than there was, imo. Because society is becoming less and less tolerant of violent behavior- and people get really upset about that- especially people who have violent urges they cannot satisfy. Look at the people who could happily beat their kids with a belt 50 years ago- LOTS of them. Not anymore. One thing that does need to change is the entertainment industry needs to get with the program. Movies and videos that desensitize kids to violence, and train them to be remorseless killers, aren't really in line with our more controlled and less violent societal norms. I am amazed we don't have a lot more killing- that video training is amazingly gruesome. After you've killed 1000, or 10,000 or 100,000 men on video- how hard is it going to be to kill a real one? Thomas Szasz rode his little hobby horse out into the twilight zone. It's good he's Emeritus. I'd hate to think this guy was trying to teach anyone anything.

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