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Originally Posted by MBlovr
This seems like a good starting point which would hopefully identify what's wrong with our society. We have certainly drifted in a pathological direction.
The way I look at it there always has been a distribution of mental stability in young males. If you either put additional pressure on that population or as some have pointed out normalize violence through video games, treat them with psychological drugs, more on the fringes will fall off the cliff. In terms of evidence of additional pressure I seem to recall that back when Columbine happened there was a significant downward trend in terms of percent of males graduating from college. Add to that making guns more accessible to this population and you have the deadly intersection that we have been witnessing.
Something is this stew needs to be reversed or we have no reason to think that things are going to get better.
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Here's something to think about...Our society likes to put kids on Ritalin to control them while in school. I was one of those children for 3 years of my life. Back then, then called AD/HD/ADD Hyperactivity. The schools would find kids that had more active brains and personalities, send them to the school psychologist, who would refer the child to a psychiatrist, who would prescribe Sylert or Ritalin. Long term effects of this drug has helped create more problems than it fixed.
http://www.neurosoup.com/pdf/effects_of_longterm_ritalin_use.pdf
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