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Originally Posted by Shtona
Either way, I don't think anything has to do with the music or the lyrics. Kids aren't stupid. They understand that there is a difference between song lyrics and reality. They don't go out and shoot someone because the music they listen to told them to.
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Sadly, I have to disagree. Kids that actually are this stupid are on the increase, but it has nothing to do with this or that music, but rather with how disconnected today's parents seem to be from their own children.
When I was in school, detentions where hell for all of us, since we perfectly well knew that at home fuming parents would be waiting for us, ready to give us the lecturing of our lives.
Nowadays? A lot of parents simply sign detention notifications and then just go ahead with whatever they were doing before.
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People are simply using the music as a scapegoat for their kids behavior.
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*nods*
Whenever a kid did something bad, people always start to look for those oh so evil things that tend to turn innocent kids into killing machines. Just take a look at media coverage after school shootings (isn't it terrible that we already have a name for that since it's becoming almost normal for youngins to take up a gun and go into a killing spree?) - the first thing they do is look for the kids playing "killer games", listening to "satanic music" or watching "gore movies". Nobody ever ask whether, maybe, just eventually, it might have been because of their upbringing, the lack of love in their family or personal problems.
No, it just
has to be one of those favourite scapegoats, something you could ban in order to feel save again. But banning music/games/movies won't change anything.
(Sorry for ranting, but I'm pretty sick of people trying to blame everything but those who actually have the most influence on adolescents.)