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This is an interesting discussion of the impact of
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During middle school I wacthed T.V. quite excessively in the
afternoon. I remember one program I watched vividly. They program was
researching violent teens. I became engrossed in hearing what the teenagers
they interviewed behaved and looked like. Their lives were entirely
diiferent from the one I led. One of the girls, staying at a correction
facilty, spoke of how she had changed since she had been admitted. She
sorrowfly explained how she had calluosly kidnapped an older man with some
other girlfriends. They tortured him extensively. She cried for the fact
that while doing it she had had no feelings for the man at all. She had
become completly numb to any kinds of emotions. My mind is brought back to
her account many times. I often wonder how that girl ever got to the point
that she no longer felt any compassion for another human being? I want to
know what happened in that girls life that made her road of life so different
from mine. What's stoppping me from going out and killingsomeone one day? Am I any different insid? How is that girl any different
than me? Why are we given the roads we travel, is it something we do
ourselves, our own choices or outside forces. Our people responsible for
their own actions or can they say that it's the fault of the enviroment that
has shaped them? Whenever I hear of someone that has murdered someone I
remember the girls numbness.
Possibly the odds are against some people and they're just reacting
to there surroundings so it's not truly there fault for doing things wrong.
Our society is very school centralized. If a student isn't especially good
at school then there acheivents in other areas often go unrecognized. This
seems unfair to me that someone should be put aside in society because that's
the "norm". If the child is no good at school than the message is that
they're no good for society. They're uneeded. Some children grow up in
enviroments completly depleted of love. Homes built on violence. You can't
expect the child to grow up unviolent. If raised in a community where there
are no role models and many of the adults are irresponsible themselves how
can you expect these youths to have respect for authority? Teens don't want
these "adults" to have control over them so strike out testing their control
and struggling to break free. All adults are seen to do is punish. Why
respect what they say and follow their rules? These youths have already
learned to deal with intense pain in their lives, a jail sentence does not
seem frightening. With all these factors do kids really have control over
making a better lives for themselves through smart choices?
I feel as if I'm constantly bombarded with newsflashes of every kind
of violence. Equally so I hear of Pete Wilson's "Three Strikes Your Out"
plan, increased funding for prison systems and money taken from the schools,
arguments that laws should become more and more stricter to cleanse society
of the fund-sucking criminals, and I remember the numbness. How can the
leaders of our society think that increasing the strength of a rule on paper
will cure the problems of people that don't feel enough compassion to not
slay another human being. I don't agree that increased laws will heighten
morals or solve the problems that make the criminals today. Outside forces
are working, on the criminals, that need to be solved first before increasing
a measally law. Maybe laws do help though, I"am unsure right now. If laws
aren't the solution to violence then what is?
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