I have never had an internet statement or comment stick to my memory more than one I read about two years ago. I was watching a reaction video of kids introduced to a Game Boy handheld for the first time. Well, I assume the video was supposed to be cute, funny, or just a positive demonstration of how different generations can be. However, that wasn't the case for some guy, and he made a really horrible comment that the children should be burned... Excuse me? What in the hell would possess you say that? I suppose the poster could be a troll or something but still that's just downright horrible. Also for something as simple as not knowing what an old game is? Granted it was popular, but still it isn't their fault they were born after the age of Game Boy and hadn't been introduced to it beforehand. The amount of violent responses I've seen, read, and heard about is just astounding and outright pitiful. I mean when did we become so quick to jump the gun? One could argue humans have always been violent, but I believe it's become more prominent due to the population increase and easy and quick access to the internet. We no longer have a filter because we no longer care enough about each other if there's a computer screen separating us. I'm not sure what the reasoning is, but I do know that something has got to change. We seriously need to get our acts together as a society, because we absolutely can not go around burning children for not knowing an old entertainment trend-regardless of whether it's an over dramatic statement or an actual wish. It's terrifying to know people think such harmful thoughts in response to such a simple video.
I ranted on my Facebook page after reading that comment about how every generation is different and has different views, opinions, traits, and just can be totally against everything the past generation stood for. I still stand by what I said. The millennial generation was pretty much blasphemous for wanting to stay inside and play with toys rather than playing outside from dawn to dusk. If you were anything like my brother and I, you spent half the day outside and half the day inside fighting over the console. We have no room to complain about kids spending all their time on video games and not knowing what the old games were. We are just as bad, and I'm sure that generations before us had their nicks and habits.
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I recently got into a debate with a man that said all the presidential candidates need to be taken to a field and shot. After a few hours of us going back and forth, he retracted his statement saying that perhaps his shooting comment was a bit extreme. I agreed, but he stood by his opinion that this generation is too soft. I had to disagree with that statement, because I find that as a society we try too hard to be tough. While I can see how he says we are too easily offended by everything, I also see that many just do not have compassion. I do find some people get offended by next to nothing, but it's not my place to judge them. I just think if we are offended by something, we can bring it up, but we have no right to tell someone they can't do or say something just because it hurts our feelings, while at the same time I also think that we should have at least a smidgen of common courtesy and be respectful to others' sensitivity. We all need to learn to find the middle ground.
I stand by the belief that violence breeds violence. Whether directly or indirectly is circumstantial. I say this because even if violence doesn't breed violence immediately, it will breed fear, fear will ultimately breed irrationality, and irrationality will end in a rash decision that becomes violence. I truly believe as a race of people, we need to learn to embrace new opinions and views with open minds and tolerance. Seeing all sides of an argument is a strong trait for anyone to have, and it comes in handy. I try to be flexible and look at every side of an argument and situation, but I just can not for the life of me find an explanation to why people want to shoot, burn, or ultimately harm someone else for not being like them. We are supposed to be different. The way our genetics are, literally breeds us to all be unique and different, so why haven't we learned to embrace each others' differences by now?
I will keep searching for an answer as to why people are so insensitive to others' and also why society seems to be more violent, but until I find the answers, what do you guys think the answer(s) could be? Any hypothesis would be openly welcome!
