Originally posted by Wyldfire
As the mother of two teenage boys I know how easily some kids can be misled in the wrong direction. Hell, I'm combatting that every day as a parent. It would be one thing if he were not as good a writer as he is...but due to that ability many would look up to him and assume they could do that and follow his advice just because he presented it somewhat eloquently.
Wyldfire, I think you are overestimating the influence people have on teenagers. By the time I finished highschool, I knew how to manufacture home-made explosives, and regularly talked online with self-professes satanists. If your worry is that kids nowadays are faced by heavy shyt... then well, they are literally surrounded by that all day, every day, be it school, internet or other media. Pretending that by erradicating "bad influences" from the limited window of a kid's life, you can actually prevent him from being in contact with such bad influences, you are not really helping the kids, but just helping yourself sleep more easily at night.
The brain is a pretty maleable instrument. Teach a youngster that he is incapable of taking his own decisions (by spoon-feeding him what must be done), and he will grow up lacking a mind of his own. Now, I'm not advocating lack of education, but rather saying that the goal of education is to have a kid who can distinguish good advice from bad.
That said, I think it's just sad that Rapp got banned, not because he preaches "kicking a woman's a**", but from what I see mostly from ticking off the wrong people in this forum. He posed a question he considered legitimate, defended it with his poor arguments that's true, but still... do people preaching self control have the need to go on for five pages trying to debate with someone who has no interest in debate? Those with more than 1k posts should probably know that usually by page 3 those threads degenerate into name-calling and flaming. We've had trolls here of all sorts, many of who didn't particularly tick off the mods, reason for which they're still around. I myself don't post that much, but read the forum frequently, if not daily.
Now Rapp is banned, and perhaps there's less name-calling than when his "kicking a**" thread was up. And now y'all can go back to pages of cutsy healthy boy-girl jokes, like this thread turned into. Just don't delude yourselves into thinking that the world out there will be more peach perfect just because you choose to segregate the opinions posted in the forum.
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