An article for you

http://www.cnn.com/2010/CRIME/02/18/...ex.html?hpt=C1

Now this thread isn't really about the article but about a wider problem in America (Maybe in Europe to, but Glenn beck [PBUH] says they are already gone) In todays society we seem to take either the 0-tolerance extereme or the to much tolerance extreme.

Now I assume there are competent adults in power, what are they thinking when they are doing this? Who is making them do this?

I guess the answer would be the PTA who, when enacting these policies think that only thugged out blacks or mexicans will get cuaght doing bad things not there perfect little white child.

I mean why should they? The media is all about hysteria and these are the images we see everyday. DRUG DEALERS, GUNS, PREGANACY.

So I guess that means it would be a reaction to these boogeyman who lurk in the corners ready to pounce as soon as we let our guard down?

Then there is the otherside of the fence, where the kid needs a good crack in the head but doesn't get one because everyone is to hung up on what someone else might think or how it would look so the sacrafice there childs well being and growth to save there own face.

Does that mean likeabilty has overtaken what is right?

We have drugged up kids, kids who needs dads, kids who need moms, kids who need more hugs, kids who need less hugs.

Yet we seem more concerend with catering to the .01% of the absolute worst that these other kids end up gravatating toward one of these two extremes because that is what is presented to us?

I guess what Im really asking is this:

Have we lost all discernment in favor of the rulebook?