At least Glasgow isn’t boring… I guess
Attacks on people in Glasgow? A “girl gang” and a “gang of up to 12 youths”? What attracts adolescents to meaningless violence? Whether or not the attackers had some score to settle with the victims (and the article says both attacks were unprovoked), it really boggles my mind. Even if I was a teenager and desperate to be perceived as cool, I would definitely draw the line at hurting someone like that.
What kind of people would commit such violence? Are they unemployed, with low self-esteem, doing poorly at school (if they even show up regularly), products of dysfunctional families? Are they easily influenced by more charismatic peers? They would, I imagine, have committed other crimes before, although perhaps not quite this shocking — something like shoplifting? Might they have bullied other, weaker children?
It just seems so senseless.
(By the way, four people are treated for knife wounds in Scotland EVERY SINGLE DAY.)
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I’ve never been to Glasgow and don’t know if its fair or not but the city seems to have a reputation for these kinds of problems – here they are discussed on
an Australian radio show!
Actually I think these kinds of behavior are really entrenched is some areas across the UK.
The kind of senselessness in the incident you mentioned reminds me of the happy slapping phenomenon that occurred across the UK over the last couple of years: groups of youths attack someone and film it all on their mobiles. Some of the worst cases resulted in a victim being killed and in another case set on fire.
I think all the reasons you mentioned play a part in it. The scary thought is that a lot of these children will soon be parents.
There are places in California that are like that but they are not really widespread. It is one of the reasons I have been so critical of the recent govenors. They seem to be ignoring schools on purpose to insure that there is an underclass to be exploited / work as cashiers at Wal-Mart.
It’s just such a shame, kids have so little to do and feel so little hope that this is considered a good use of time. But perhaps it is entrenched - I’m thinking of football casuals, grown men who think attacking other people is all in a Saturday night’s fun.
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