re warning please read in article apr ctp com bpita ctp com bob pitas writes in article r d d s agate berkeley edu bh anarres cs berkeley edu brian harvey writes rfelix netcom com robbie felix writes how about the thousands of kind teenagers who volunteer at local agencies to help children seniors the homeless hear hear thanks robbie you also don t read that much about violence against teenagers such as george bush burying alive tens of thousands of unarmed iraqi year olds who were trying to surrender with bulldozers on the other hand i think it is true without singling out teenagers for blame that violence is more socially acceptable than it used to be those of us who d like to discourage violence have plenty of work to do with people of all ages well this isn t the right group for this but i have to say that i don t think violence is any more socially acceptable now by any means how can you say that when we used to have of pistol toting gunslingers as heros or even gangland thugs being considered romantic do you think our great grandparent got yelled at by their parents for playing cowboys and indians i don t think so that behavior was somewhat encouraged back then in fact i think the only difference between now and then is that nowadays when some teenager kills another one in a classroom in california we here about it in ma the same day back in the old days they d never hear about something like that period yeah people act really shocked about violence as though it were new to our species what about the holocaust the crusades the salem witch trials the religious persecutions of the middle ages what about violent acts carried out in the name of religion all over the world what about the early christians put to death by the romans the jews persecuted by christians there are a lot more humans today than there have ever been i do not know the stats but there are far more people on the planet than there were or hundred years ago the per capita acts of violence are probably not significantly different than they were a hundred or a thousand years ago there is nothing new about violence rf
