Some days it would be better to just stay in bed. Yesterday there was a story in the news about 6 girls in Florida who got pissed at another girl for some perceived insults posted on a MySpace page.
After luring her to one of the girl’s house they proceeded to take turns beating on this girl. She was knocked unconscious, she received a concussion, and evidently one of her eyes was hurt from this beating.
The thing is, they didn’t just beat this girl up, they taunted her to fight back, which she refused to do, while filming the entire episode to post on the internet. They wanted notoriety for this brutal attack.
The 6 girls who did this had planned it well. They knew when the house would be empty, and they had a couple of their boy friends posted outside as lookouts. They are being charged as adults.
While I am glad they are being charged as adults, I have to wonder whose fault this actually is. The answer that comes to me is that it is the liberal mind-set that has brought us to this point. We refuse to allow absolutes in this world because absolutes create barriers. We live in such a nanny state now that barriers to anything are not acceptable.
Moral relativism. I remember hearing that term back in the 1970’s, the 10 Commandments had already been taken out of our schools and many teachers were afraid to read the Bible in class. While I did have a few who did read the Bible to her students every day, most either gave up the practice totally, or changed it to a period of “meditation” instead.
Parents were being hauled in front of judges for abusing their kids for giving them a spanking. They were supposed to appeal to the little tyke’s better instincts instead. What society failed to realize is that kids don’t have a better instinct. Our instincts tell us that whatever we do that is pleasurable and has no consequences must be good. So long as no consequences are imposed on our actions we have no reason to change a behavior.
Oh sure, science knew that, but if we just used “Positive” reinforcement instead of punishment our little darlings would gravitate towards better behavior. Unfortunately, some kids just like the fun of the bad behavior more than the reinforcement. What science forgot is that there is built into all of us a mechanism designed (by God) to help us to learn proper behavior. It is called the ‘Survival Instinct.’ Coupled with pain, the survival instinct will mold our children into fine upstanding citizens.
We need to take our country back! Give our kids a good spanking and help them to become decent citizens of this wonderful nation.
