Why is violence a solution for kids?

[Drake_Dercon]

I know someone who constantly expresses desire to kill another person.

Though, in fairness to him, everybody (jocks, preps, punks, goths, emos, gangsters, nerds, hackers, ect.) wishes the person he wants to take out would just disappear.

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Oh, as to why:

Part of it is probably the underdeveloped brains. The rest, a combination of a lack of real world experience and hormones.

That is horribly discriminatory. Hormones, yes and society is also a yes, but underdeveloped brains and a lack of real world experience?

Ehh, the last one might be right, but high school is where you start to learn those bits, so don't look at that as a fault or a negative (welcome to the department of redundancy department, mind ringing the bell again for effect?).

I'd say it's... actually I don't understand it at all, it seems obscenely stupid. I mean sure, I'd like to whack someone once in a while, but for a reason usually provoked by acts straddling the line between sexual molestation and excessively overt and gay jokes and I'd never go out and pick a fight. Not unless I was already being attacked. It just proves what people think about teenagers.

Edit and Counter-point: Why do adults think violence is a solution? Sure, there are more idiots in high school, but that doesn't mean they stop existing once you graduate.

 

[Death on Trapezoids]

Why are people violent?

Spoiler

Bloodlust trumps logic every time.

Or, I don't know, toture is wonderous fun when you are too young for a concience.

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in real life things don't work like that!

Oh but they do, my friend. Things have worked like that for a very, very long time. Why should violence cease to be a viable option now? Up 'till very recently, "justice" was delivered by the grimy hands of a mob just as much as the cool deliberations of a court room.

 

[RobCoxxy]

Because violence is often a solution for adults.

 

[Nieroshai]

I think it often comes down to maturity. If you can't win with words and you HAVE TO WIN, what do you have left but your fists?

This is why I enjoy being artfully articulate.

 

[jaoblia]

Well at least where i come from teachers at schools DONT DO SHIT when anything happens, so violence is really the only ansewer to any real problem.

 

[jawakiller]

... Because it often works. Here is a caveman analogy. Fred pisses Joe off. Joe asks Fred to stop. Fred ignores Joe. Joe finds a rock. Joe bashes Fred in head. Multiple times. Till he's dead. Problem solved.

Contrary to popular opinion, violence sometimes does work.