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Maybe...say a prayer for your famililies today - these folks - not so lucky
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<blockquote data-quote="mrsammler" data-source="post: 447343"><p>The latest report is that the kid had taken 3 hits of ecstasy before "deciding" to kill his parents. And that he'll be pleading not guilty due to temporary insanity.</p><p></p><p>It's just sickening. I remember telling friends in '99, when everyone was so shocked by Columbine, that from my experience as a teacher, there's a period in many (not all, but enough to be notable) teenagers' lives when they have detached from the simplistic, inevitably disposable morality of childhood but haven't yet replaced it with the more complex morality of adulthood, and that during that interstitial period, they are capable of the most heinous misdeeds, and need to be watched closely until they embrace a larger, adult morality. I knew many kids who did really outrageously amoral things in high school--lying, gross selfishness, cruelty, vindictive & hateful behavior toward adults and other teens--and then, when they came back to the school to visit teachers a year after two after having started college, they invariably apologize in great shame. The teen years can be SO dicey.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="mrsammler, post: 447343"] The latest report is that the kid had taken 3 hits of ecstasy before "deciding" to kill his parents. And that he'll be pleading not guilty due to temporary insanity. It's just sickening. I remember telling friends in '99, when everyone was so shocked by Columbine, that from my experience as a teacher, there's a period in many (not all, but enough to be notable) teenagers' lives when they have detached from the simplistic, inevitably disposable morality of childhood but haven't yet replaced it with the more complex morality of adulthood, and that during that interstitial period, they are capable of the most heinous misdeeds, and need to be watched closely until they embrace a larger, adult morality. I knew many kids who did really outrageously amoral things in high school--lying, gross selfishness, cruelty, vindictive & hateful behavior toward adults and other teens--and then, when they came back to the school to visit teachers a year after two after having started college, they invariably apologize in great shame. The teen years can be SO dicey. [/QUOTE]
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