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Nah

But the point is that if you're going to start with the premise that someone is attempting to actually end thier life, it is not only dismissive but also quite fallacious to blame the sh*t on Simple Plan. There is something very, very @#%^ed up in the mindset and the logic of someone that has found themselves in a situation in which they can see absolutely no other choice than to kill themselves. A person like that is not thinking rationally; a person like that should not be derided because of some notion that it all arises from some stupid trend of culture. Maybe they should be derided by letting thier logic and perspective fail so horribly that they can no longer find any value in life, or hell maybe they have just been reading too much Dostoyevsky, but it's just foolish to flippantly claim the culture is the sole cause of a problem, and argue something along the lines of "well damn in my day this sh*t didn't happen, damn all that new music!"



If all problems with youth were merely behavior then perhaps this would suffice to fix things. They aren't, and it doesn't.

When a kid has emotional angst, percieved soundly or not, thier friends in high school, especially middle school, and especially if you're a guy, are the last people that you want to be running to crying and leaning upon.

Edited, Feb 8th 2007 10:19am by Pensive

I'm the oldest of 3 girls. My youngest sister is 8 years younger than me and it's amazing to see the way kids today are changing. No longer are most kids respectful of authority figures, like parents for example. Comparatively, my little sisters seem to be able to get away with much more than I ever could.

My little sister is most definitely "Emo". She's been this way for a couple years now despite being on a few different anti-deprssants and therapy (for a little while anyways). She is beautiful and a talented artist, in fact she could do anything she wanted really and yet she can't seem to be able to finish highschool, get a job or do anything at all productive because she is always "sad". I try to tell her that there is a big world out there and that she doesn't want to look back on her years spent wasted being depressed over nothing and regret them.

The problem is that she is spoiled and selfish, as are most of these emo kids today. It scares my parents when she cuts up her arms, for example, so she just gets whatever she wants to make her stop. She never does herself any real harm, however it still scares the **** out of my parents.



I couldn't agree more. Depression is a serious thing, but this new breed of "emo" kids is just a bunch of whiney, spoiled brats angry with the world because they are just figuring out that everything in life won't be served to them on a silver platter. What ever happened to working hard for something anyway?

That idea is pure gold I say!

The discourse that the old generation has been holding towards the new genration since mankind began.

I blame cell phones and the internets.

Now make with the leather pants pix plz kthxla~