Seriously, todays youth?

[beniki]

Ahhh, this takes me back. Wait until he finds the gardening stuff. That's where the fun really begins!

But no, this is just normal boy stuff. Or at least it was for me. Don't you remember watching Home Alone, Hook, or even Ernest Scared Stupid? Making weird weapons like that is just what boys do.

I remember doing wonderful things with bamboo sticks in my day. That clothes peg gun is a classic though. My Dad taught me to make that one.

 

[dagens24]

Back in my day kids had respect for their elders. Sure, we beat them to within an inch of their lives and they were consumed with murder fantasies but damn it they listened to what I said. Also, if you got a splinter and it got infected you'd have to cut off your hand. Also, no blacks allowed. Thank you.

The moral of the story is that modern society, and kids included, are SO much better than any previous generation. We're getting better all the time.

 

[Del-Toro]

Opinions on this? I think this is creepy, thank goodness I'm a kind person

You know, OP, the most corrupt people are the ones who insist loudest that they are pure.

If that was too ambiguous for anyone, I'm assuming kindness works the same way.

So he built some home-made weapons. He isn't hurting anybody, and if the need arises, he can defend himself from home invaders, probably without killing them.

When I was in high school I built a flamethrower. I owned daggers and swords and my mother gave me a crossbow for my birthday. None have been used on people. [sub] yet [/sub]

Hell's yes, I have two Katanas, a dagger, a knife (like mobsters would use) and a boken for a non lethal option. Doesn't make me a bad person, but it does make trying to attack my home unarmed a bad idea.

OP: I do dislike the youth these days, of course, I've been described by friends as "an old man in a young man's body" (I'm 18), so my opinion is set in stone and therefore of no consequence.

 

[Lullabye]

I think that's called creativity.

 

[Merkavar]

too be honest those ''weapons'' are weak suace.

i used to play with glove guns which shot rocks and ball bearing up to 20-30 meters. we used to play wargames. sort of like paintball.

the weapons in the video shot tooth picks like 5 meters at most.

so im going to go with todays youth arent disturbing, they lack imagination and rescourcefulness

and when i was even younger we used to make bow and arrows out of bambo. we used elastic bands cause we didnt unterstand how a bow worked back then. they fired pretty well

like someone else said, making weapons seems to be a pretty normal boy thing to do. i dont think i knew of anyone who didnt make a pug gun, glove gun, potato gun, orange gun, peg gun, bow and arrow, pen gun at some point. my cousin even combined a pen and a party poper together that shot ball bearings like a gun.

 

[Beliyal]

I see nothing wrong with this. Kid has spare time, he has a hobby, he is very creative and he's definitely spending his time the way he should; doing what makes him happy and what he's good at. Since when does a hobby that involves weapons implies serial killers and people that want death to others? A lot of people are attracted to weapons, a lot of people train professionally, but you probably wouldn't even know that if you saw them. They sure as hell don't look any different. If you saw me on the street, you would have never guessed that I collect weapons. My room is filled with real knives, shurikens, swords, firelocks, spear, axe, and will certainly be filled with more (and I've always wanted to fill my room with those, since I was a kid), but I sure as hell do not have aspirations to kill people. Judging this kid based on his harmless hobby is just as ridiculous as judging anything else, including games and saying they make people violent. Sure, somebody can get hurt if the kid plays around with those, but you can get hurt accidentally by any household appliance.

As for kids today, regardless of this, I can't say much. I've seen awful kids and I've seen good ones. It depends on which ones you see more. And older generations always complain about youth. It was always like that, nothing new about this sentiment. And I'm honestly more worried about kids without ideals and goals than about a kid that has a creative hobby for his spare time.

 

[p3t3r]

he was making a shiskabob gun not a shank out of a piece of plastic or rust. he just needs something to do in his spare time and it doesn't look like he was gonna hurt anyone.

 

[ENKC]

How is that disturbing? He's not hurting anyone.

Go back a couple of hundred years and he'd be in the army, killing people.

I think "todays youth" are alright.

Go to a local middle school and count how many times you hear the word "Gay"

Then you see why.

I think youth today is both getting:
Even more Stupid
Forgetful

Anecdotes =/= evidence.

Give us some hard proof that today's youth is any less intelligent than any other generation or you have no ground to stand on. And given that education standards have been rising whilst crime rates have been falling, I'd say you're going to have a hard time.

 

[Xenetethrae]

This kid is Macgyver!! Seriously... "next I made a blowdart gun out of a straw and the end of a shoelace"

"Then I made this bolt-action rifle out of a twig, a rolled-up newspaper, and a human thigh bone!"

 

[agnosticOCD]

I'm a big fan of self defense, and I think this is a good way to further the kid's creativity along with keeping his home and his family safe. I don't mind at all.

Youth today are being indoctrinated and kept in line in ways that make them the way they are, they are more prone to selfish impulse (which would be good if it wasn't the case ALL THE FUCKING TIME), they are more prone to getting gratification from trivial crap and insulting people, and they tend to be apathetic with situations that affect them in ways they can't understand, or refuse to understand.

This kid is setting a fine example.

 

[brunothepig]

I don't know if any other 92's have he same feeling...

But i feel that right after 93' people were different.
When i was 15 -16 we had a normal and healthy lifestyle, but when i got to 18 the 15 - 16 year olds were much different.
It was such an sudden change.

I'm not "old" in that sense, i drink and party just as much as the next guy.
But i feel that "they" are so much more extreme.

In all honesty, I think you're right. I was born in '93, and I swear the kids after us were more immature (on average, there's still some cool ones obviously). I don't know, I've talked to teachers about it and they agreed, I assumed it was just down where I lived though...
OT: As everyone has said, we all made weapons, you're overreacting. Why back when I was a kid I had home made bows and arrows, I'd beat my friend with a stick (sword fighting. Good times) and all sorts of stuff that you seem to think made me a degenerate or something. I'm in University now.

 

[TeeBs]

If you gave any other generation a camera we would be having the same discussion now over AM radio

 

[revenge6000]

Sir, I counter your example of today's youth with this one:

 

[Ashcrexl]

better doing that than being a brat to his parents and spending 85% of his time watching tv.

 

[The_Echo]

Dude, this kid is pretty sweet. Those were some badass homemade weapons.

Besides that, it's not like he was testing that on live targets or anything. It's just a hobby, obviously. >_> Some people collect guns, should we be worried about that? Nobody really is, because it's just their hobby.

 

[TilMorrow]

That kid has too much free time if he is able to build those.

 

[thedeathscythe]

That's just a kids creativity. In highschool we found out that if we pressed Alt-Escape on this computer test the teachers gave us, it gave us this weird screen that let use see the answer and change all our previous answers. So we all aced every test, and we were just curious kids messing around. I used to make slingshots and different things out of pens all the time, I would actually be more frightened if a kid couldn't figure out how to turn a pen into a weapon. The day kids lose that kind of creativity and curiosity is the day I will actually be frightened.

 

[-Samurai-]

I'd take this kid over the little bastards that I have to kick off of the $3,000 machines every weekend at work. The things aren't toys, and the next teen to curse at me for doing my job is gonna get thrown in the cardboard compactor.

 

[Lewieroo0]

There will always be some dickheads out there giving the youth a bad reputation

 

[TheGuiggleMonster]

To be honest I don't think "today's youth" are any different to how they've always been.