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are people just getting nastier?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/...ngland-devon-15856146
Upset my boyfriend and I'll microwave your cat! The woman who put the cat in the bin was bad enough, what is happenning to us? There's the kids that stabbed the disabled guy and nicked his leg, there's the bloke who towed a dog behind his Porsche, are we just getting nastier as a race?
Upset my boyfriend and I'll microwave your cat! The woman who put the cat in the bin was bad enough, what is happenning to us? There's the kids that stabbed the disabled guy and nicked his leg, there's the bloke who towed a dog behind his Porsche, are we just getting nastier as a race?
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I would agree that the more violent aspects of our society are more easily reported, so appear more prevalent, which may not be the case.
It is hard to argue against the notion that people are noit as fundamentally nice as they used to be in previous generations.
The standard way of speaking among a lot of families is to bark at each other, with coarse language being seen as the normal way to communicate.
I feel this leads to an undercurrent of aggression which was not present when I was growing up. i remember being deeply shocked when i hear my father uise a four-letter word to me, and i was in my twenties by then.
Our family are always nice and polite in their speech, i see it as a mark of respect to speak to people properly, and we have raised out children to do the same.
A little politeness among everyone smooths the daily interactions we all experience, and similarly, barking produces agression, verbal or physical.
We are getting harsher and less tolerant as a race, and this is a worrying trend for the future.
It is hard to argue against the notion that people are noit as fundamentally nice as they used to be in previous generations.
The standard way of speaking among a lot of families is to bark at each other, with coarse language being seen as the normal way to communicate.
I feel this leads to an undercurrent of aggression which was not present when I was growing up. i remember being deeply shocked when i hear my father uise a four-letter word to me, and i was in my twenties by then.
Our family are always nice and polite in their speech, i see it as a mark of respect to speak to people properly, and we have raised out children to do the same.
A little politeness among everyone smooths the daily interactions we all experience, and similarly, barking produces agression, verbal or physical.
We are getting harsher and less tolerant as a race, and this is a worrying trend for the future.
no we are not getting nastier. i think that in the days when:
infanticide was rife (roman times)
bear baiting, burning at the stake was a spectator sport (tudor times)
colonial slavery was the norm (georgian times)
bethlehem (bedlam) royal hospital, newgate and tyburn for the poor (victorian times)
we were much much nastier.
infanticide was rife (roman times)
bear baiting, burning at the stake was a spectator sport (tudor times)
colonial slavery was the norm (georgian times)
bethlehem (bedlam) royal hospital, newgate and tyburn for the poor (victorian times)
we were much much nastier.
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pa___ul3
/// What were they used for? Did none ever shoot at any
animals? ///
Maybe at a few starlings ruining one's fruit, but never dogs, cats, etc.
The main victims of the air weapon pellets and the catapult pebble was the used tin can.
The knife was used to cut a suitable piece of wood from a field hedge with which to fashion one's self a stout bow and some arrows, or also to practice one's knife throwing skills.
Ah, those happy tranquil days of childhood.
/// What were they used for? Did none ever shoot at any
animals? ///
Maybe at a few starlings ruining one's fruit, but never dogs, cats, etc.
The main victims of the air weapon pellets and the catapult pebble was the used tin can.
The knife was used to cut a suitable piece of wood from a field hedge with which to fashion one's self a stout bow and some arrows, or also to practice one's knife throwing skills.
Ah, those happy tranquil days of childhood.
i think its partly because some people generally become more bitter than they used to be, due to feelings of inadequacy, jealousy, disappointment and disillusionment... they are angry at the world because they want a better life...
they see others with more stuff, better stuff, better job, better partner, better everything and they want it too... and they feel they deserve it... and then when they dont get it the seething resentment festers and consumes their whole being and they become bitter and twisted.
in the 'good old days' people were not continually bombarded with bling, massive tellys, flash cars, unrealistic looking people, etc etc - all unatainable and unrealistic goals, and were generally more content with their lot...
they see others with more stuff, better stuff, better job, better partner, better everything and they want it too... and they feel they deserve it... and then when they dont get it the seething resentment festers and consumes their whole being and they become bitter and twisted.
in the 'good old days' people were not continually bombarded with bling, massive tellys, flash cars, unrealistic looking people, etc etc - all unatainable and unrealistic goals, and were generally more content with their lot...
we are becoming more American - there was one with a golf guy who had lost his arm and they designed him a mechanical arm - he would take you on in charity events on a Par 3......and guess what, he was closest to the pin most of the time. Someone nicked his arm............some $20k's worth of technology
We have had a similar event re animals down here, a woman repeatedly throwing her terrier into the sea - in Devon. Obviously not our beloved Ratter who would, no doubt, roast the woman on the remnants of his garden furniture....
We have had a similar event re animals down here, a woman repeatedly throwing her terrier into the sea - in Devon. Obviously not our beloved Ratter who would, no doubt, roast the woman on the remnants of his garden furniture....
Sorry if I sound a bit old fashioned here, but we have lost any sense of shame in our behaviour. It was the norm in the majority of homes that if you were punished at school, you were punished at home. I recall my brother saying he'd been punished and my Dad asking what he'd done, Nowt, was the reply. What should you have been doing then? Had he been in trouble with the law, I think we would have had to move! Nowadays, these are badges of honour almost, I've heard young people discussing their court appearances. The nearest thing I'd ever heard before was Monty Python's Yorkshiremen, vying for the worst experiences. It isn't "cool" to work hard in school and achieve, and some weaker youngsters find it difficult to cope with that pressure, the very clever ones will deal with it.
kayless, no need to get personal. probably not these days but its likley that such tests were done on cats and dogs during the refinement of electromanetic technologies. these days animals will be subjected to anthrax or ecoli and the like. have you not seen the live cat intubations or spinal damage to test neurological effects? not to mention what happened and still happens at huntingdon life sciences.
as said by penn & teller - if strangling every single chimp in the world would cure AIDs, would you do it ?
as said by penn & teller - if strangling every single chimp in the world would cure AIDs, would you do it ?
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