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Originally Posted by bojan
Marc, this is very arrogant from you.
11 year old kid does not have strength to resist his or her mates in most of those things to be done together..
After couple of years, it is already too late and then the legal system has to pick up the pieces of what was supposed to be the job for other agencies (school for the start, familly, social care and so on) years earlier.
I deeply and fundamentally disagree with you on this issue.
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I would disagree with that. I, myself, were most certainly not swayed by any peer pressure at all during my childhood and adolescent years and I had plenty of opportunities to go off the rails. Just like any other kid. It all depends on how the child is brought up by the parents and the maturity of the child themselves. Ultimately, it boils down to choice...of the parents and of the child, which in turn is a factor of personal responsibility, which in turn is a factor of their personal (dare I say it, spiritual) maturity.
It's a lack of the latter on everyone's part which creates those conditions that ultimately lead to what we've seen in London, and elsewhere.
The social conditions we see in our Western societies are a consequence of immature and corrupt policies on the part of societal leaders and the detrimental social customs that have been allowed to build up over centuries. We have essentially abused ourselves and others to the point that we have come to believe that how we live is the optimum norm, when in fact we're killing one another and ourselves...or will do so if we keep this up.