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Originally Posted by shakermaker
In that case the blame would go on the youths' psychological problems and/or parental responsibility, would it not?
Because obviously not all young people have this kind of confusion, as if they did everyone who played GTA or listened to 50 Cent would be off shooting people all over the gaff.
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I don't think it is really a simple equation: hear song ... kill someone. But I do think that the confusion is there. More like a confusion of mixed messages: they get one set of messages from parents (most parents anyway) and another from assorted media. I don't think we should forget the internal messages either. All who are not suffering from some sort of mental/psychological condition know what is right and what is wrong. And I don't believe that it is up to governments to solve the problem. Even a good government couldn't do it. It is up to the parents. Govts should only interfere with parenting in extreme cases of provable abuse. They can go a long way in restricting access to firearms and access to the nastier drugs. But my parents and my grandparents passed their values on to me; and a lot of them stuck. I may not have turned out the way the wanted: but at least (I believe) I know what is right and what is not. If they could do that sort of things back in the bleak days of the late 40s and early 50s when just putting food on the table was tough enough, surely it can still be done today
Here comes my optimism and my idealism; time to go.