09-02-2025, 10:42 AM
(09-02-2025, 10:35 AM)UltraBudgie Wrote: rather than focusing on the infeasibility of "fixing" a particular individual, i think it's more about acknowledging that perhaps her environment and social circumstance "broke" her, and that isn't an intrinsic fault of her own, and that perhaps all countries could do a better job of providing underprivileged children opportunities and support in avoiding such spirals into "ned-ness".
You're kind of hitting the nail on the head.
That's how kids choose to act when you close down all the community centres and projects.
And leave them to their own devices with nothing to do but each other.
Just a fact.
But it does not justify jumping around parks armed to the teeth with murder weapons UltraBudgie.
Because it all ends in tears when they stab one another, or somebody else, and they end up dead.
Two lives are lost then, they go to jail for a very long time, and the other poor sod ceases to exist.
"Yet so it is, we see the illiterate bulk of mankind that walk the high-road of plain common sense, and are governed by the dictates of nature, for the most part easy and undisturbed. To them nothing that is familiar appears unaccountable or difficult to comprehend."
