[QUOTE="Lorindol"][QUOTE="crazygamer1"][QUOTE="Lorindol"]As a father of three kids one of which is this age I cannot see why everyone thinks this is so funny and how the child is stupid. The kid was being exactly that....a kid.....I am sure that most of the people on here did insanely stupid things when they were that age, I know that I did, I do stupid stuff as a grown up all the time. But to call the kid retarded and an idiot is not the right thing, what is wrong with a child being a child. crazygamer1
Being called "stupid" may just have something to due with oh I dunno...burying his head in the sand. I know kids will be kids, but why many of us call him stupid or retarded is because it's not like this happens alot...we don't have an epidemic of head-burriers, so what this kid did was waaaaay out there in thought. Just about every 10 year old, when it comes to the thought of burying one's head in the sand would never occur to them. Sure alot of kids do stupid things, but there comes a point where they're old enough to know where the line is. 10 years old is plenty old enough to know you need air to live and to bury your head in the sand would take away that air.
Kids will be kids and they will do some stupid things from time to time, like you said and I understand where you're coming from. But where I'm coming from is I'm sick of this stupid stuff happening and then having everything being blamed on a t.v. program or video game and not where it should be placed...on the person who committed the act and on their parents. The kid is 10 afterall, so his parents should've paid a little more attention to what was going on with him. So whenever something like this happens, everytime something like this happens, I hope that it'll be a wake-up call to people...but it never is. People keep pointing fingers, keep overlooking...so all I can do now is laugh, because it's reached the point of being completely ridiculous.
I agree with the point that they blame games and TV needlessly, his parents should have watched him better also. The other kids should have also been smart enough to know that something was wrong, but I think the whole retarded thing is wrong.......... if he was really disabled like that then fine, but he wasn't, he made a stupid mistake and paid with his life. Kids do stupid things I won't disagree with that, but come on, he was a child who did something stupid while trying to enjoy being a child and living with as much happiness as he could. I just see it as a happy child having fun and ending up in a bad situation........
I can agree with that...in situations like this I try as best I can to see both sides of the question at hand. Totally get your perspective, especially being that you have kids. Best wishes that you teach them better and that they take better care to avoid stupid things like this. There's some things that you just can't control, but things like this are completely avoidable. I definitely respect how you handled the response I gave, if I came off as argumentative, sorry.
Don't appologize, your point was well given, but I am still a big kid and do stupid things all the time. it is common sense that he lacked to be sure, but then kids are kids, they all make mistakes to learn from and some of them don't get that chance which sucks.
Log in to comment