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10/18/2015 8:06:34 PM
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First, how do you pay your xbox live account without a credit card? And second the biggest problem for me was that I was already in a bad place when that happened. I have had several family members who were alcoholics and when they got sober they ended up killing themselves. That is something that messes with your psyche and affects you profoundly. It isn't a matter of the youth of today being weak or unable to handle it. It has more to do with the proliferation of hatred that is spread by people through the internet. You may say that you could handle it perfectly and that it wouldn't affect you; but I guarantee that you don't know how "easy" it would be to handle until it actually happens to you. And it isn't as simple as saying "don't let it bother you" that's like lighting someone on fire and saying "just don't let the fire burn you." I agree with you to an extent that it has a lot to do with the victim's ability to rise above it but we have also reached a point where people that bully others are just looked at as a nuisance who cannot actually cause any damage to a person - and that is just not the case.
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It is that the youth are weak. They are raised under the everyone gets a ribbon lifestyle. Coddled and told everyone is the same. They are not. Instead of being taught tolerance of difference, and confidence in who they are children are forced to believe participation will be enough for success. They are not taught to develop their own strengths and advance with them instead they are taught to fit in. I am a father with adult children and grandchildren, mine know who they are, what they are capable of, and how to handle life even when it seems unfair. The generation gap is huge. Oh you do know you can buy time at any store that sells games right?
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First, there is still a transaction link that hooks your personal information to your xbox live account. But lets not focus on that. I was never coddled. I was never taught that participation was all that mattered. I played football and lacrosse in a town that is really well known for its level of competition. These were not teams where everyone made it. They were not teams where everyone got play time. You had to earn it and you had to be worthy of it. But that does not somehow immunize me from ridicule or torment. While I am happy that you have not raised your children to feel that everything should be handed to them, I think you are somewhat missing what I am saying. No one is safe from the detriment of bullying. You may believe wholeheartedly in who you are and be totally confident in yourself and still face issues when someone verbally attacks you for what they perceive to be flaws in your personality or who you are. I will say that after the incident that I mentioned I did learn better to rise above things and to be more able to let taunting go. It was more the invasion of my life that person committed. They were able to get my personal information with little to no effort at all. I don't believe that we need to coddle our children at all. I think, as you have alluded, that that ideal would only make things worse. However, I think that something needs to be done as far as the people who are so able to pick targets and maliciously attack them. When a bully finds someone who has faced issues in their life that make them a prime target for ridicule they are merciless. To give you some idea of what its like, it would be like if I was playing against you in the crucible and I found that there was no way for you to stop me from shotgunning you to death. And then from there I found a way to constantly pinpoint you in the game a sought you out to ensure that I killed you as many times as possible. And then that I stayed in that same match with you as long as you were there and that even if I was on your team I still sought to make you helpless to shotgun attacks. When someone truly decides that they are going to stop at nothing to make your life a living hell, they will find a way to accomplish that.
