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To: ManyMoose who wrote (130453)	3/6/2001 12:58:01 AM
From: Little Joe	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

"I agree with this statement. The esteem for others is lacking in two places: 1) in the kids who get so angry that they commit these crimes, and 2), in the kids who shun other kids or shut them out, thus setting the stage for the kids in the first group." Right on. Kids are strange. When I was a kid I lived in a poor neighborhood, but didn't know I was poor. My families situation changed and we were able to move to a better neighborhood and I found tremendous peer pressure to wear certain clothes, etc. I was asked to join a fraternity on condition that I changed the way I dressed. Very strange, I thought. My daughter went to high school in one of the best neighborhoods in my state. At one of the highest rated public schools. The pressure to conform was enormous. I couldn't believe it. There is much to be said for school uniforms. Little joe

To: ManyMoose who wrote (130453)	3/6/2001 9:57:04 AM
From: greenspirit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Excellent post Dave, I thought the same statements were right on the money. I also wonder if our constant stream of violence in T.V's, movies, and video games is having a desensitizing effect on kids. When parents took kids hunting in the old days, they saw the reality of the violence up close, felt the heart of a deer stop beating, and became more in tune with what happens when you shoot a weapon. Today, they just hit rewind, or play the game over again and again without the reality really being felt. I wonder what would happen if a movement was started to charge a fee to movie companies and purveyors of violence in the mass media? After all, we pay a huge tax for cigarettes largely due to their cost on our society.