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Off topic, I know,...but I really suspect the fact I listened to him is not such a matter of luck, as it may sound. In fact, given a shot, I believe it would work with a great many of todays "problem youth" as well, than most would suspect. He was a big burley sort of guy, one who (according to the story's his friends tell me) believed skinned knuckles were a part of diplomacy, and could MAKE most men see things his way whenever absolutely necessary, but his preferance by far would be to instead get them to WANT to do things his way. Whenever I'd do something that was "poor citizenship" like, Dad would talk me into seeing how "whatever" I had done, had actually harmed someone else, and made sure I could see why My behavior was "wrong" as if I had done "whatever" to myself,..etc. I didn't really realize just why this was so powerful in making me value "right" first and foremost, until I got older, and started watching how others raised their children....You can see the more common result everywhere, where parents will just smack the kid, and tell them to be ashamed, "now go watch TV".....--the only message the kid soaks up *there* is "DON'T GET CAUGHT".... I recall one time I shot Dad with my cap pistol,..and he keeled over and layed in the middle of the Living room for a good two hours, "dead",..I ended up getting histyrically "sorry" over my deed, and eventually mom got upset with him for making me cry so, and made him stop "learning me the hard way" Let me assure you, that I would be absolutely the last person to ever pull off a "columbine highschool" type affair,....despite being a REAL gun nut par excellance...because I had someone willing to take the time....and prove to me that my own actions would be my own making or my own consequences. I think a lot of kids end up believing that if the "victim" has no face, then there IS NO victim..
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