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How dare they?
May. 25th, 2005 12:23 pmI can't believe we got into an argument about this, my folks and I.
I just pointed out that a scientific study has discovered that psychopathic behaviour can be inherited among the young, meaning that kids can be born bad - thus blowing any legal argument that children are incapable of doing harm out of the water once and for all - and my folks asked why it was that their generation, growing up as they did during the middle of the last century, never had the sort of vicious behaviour we are plagued with today.
So they blamed me and mine - children of the 1960s/ 70s - for inventing murder, rape and suchlike.
So I told them simply, "Myra Hindley and Ian Brady the Moors Murderers - they were your generation. The kids they violated, then murdered? They were my generation."
Don't tell me we invented atrocities, when they were a generation whose Wise Leaders deliberately chose to suppress making news of the nazi death camps public: when their generation included the likes of Ed Gein, Ted Bundy and Dennis Nielsen.
God, how dare they? When my folks were growing up, slavery had been abolished ten minutes before, and they were still bloody banging the rocks together to make fire!
I just pointed out that a scientific study has discovered that psychopathic behaviour can be inherited among the young, meaning that kids can be born bad - thus blowing any legal argument that children are incapable of doing harm out of the water once and for all - and my folks asked why it was that their generation, growing up as they did during the middle of the last century, never had the sort of vicious behaviour we are plagued with today.
So they blamed me and mine - children of the 1960s/ 70s - for inventing murder, rape and suchlike.
So I told them simply, "Myra Hindley and Ian Brady the Moors Murderers - they were your generation. The kids they violated, then murdered? They were my generation."
Don't tell me we invented atrocities, when they were a generation whose Wise Leaders deliberately chose to suppress making news of the nazi death camps public: when their generation included the likes of Ed Gein, Ted Bundy and Dennis Nielsen.
God, how dare they? When my folks were growing up, slavery had been abolished ten minutes before, and they were still bloody banging the rocks together to make fire!
