Zeewolf: If you're deeply offended when someone who don't know you or your mother says something nasty about her, you just need to get over yourself. Simple as that. Otherwise you're the one with a problem, not them.

Zeewolf: Edit 2: That said, we should of course try to lessen the problem, as we don't want a society where being a jerk is the accepted norm either. I'm just saying that punching people is not the fix we're after.

Crassmaster: So...you're getting lipped off in a game because Liberals are running the country...what?
And when exactly has this Liberal governance happened? In case you hadn't noticed, aside from two terms of Clinton and a half term of Obama, it's been all Republicans in the White House since 1980.

Vestin: Wait a minute... Doesn't that include the sexual revolution and all the social progress we owe to the hippie movement ?

robobrien: In the mid sixties BC the young men of Rome had developed an aptitude for; 'debauchery', 'love affairs' and 'staying up all night to the sound of loud music'.
Cicero would state that 'Back in the old days, the Greeks used to stamp down on that kind of thing. They recognised the potential deadliness of the plague, how it would rot the minds of its citizens with pernicious manias and ideas, and then, all at once, bring about a citys total collapse.'
Anyone who thinks that society falling into the shitter is a recent thing had better get in line.
A long, long line.

tb87670: Does anyone else get annoyed by this attitude people are picking up in the past 2 decades? It's like an author wrote once, if everyone carried a gun then we would be a lot more polite to each other on the street because one would need to back up his word. While that's not feasible to give everyone a gun since there are idiots running around, there has to be a way to make people accountable for their behavior on the internet. I would like to see a way for this to happen, but for now I settle by dreaming of the day I can reach my hand through a punks monitor on his daddy's PC and strangle him slowly for talking bad things about my momma.

Vestin: Wait a minute... Doesn't that include the sexual revolution and all the social progress we owe to the hippie movement ?

tb87670: All kids nowadays don't seem to have modest respect anymore. They smack talk in games or over internet with a security layer that keeps them safe and getting away with such behavior and it's bugging the hell out of me. This can get a little long so bear with me I'm on cough medicine making me feel good because of a wheeze I caught.
Everyone has ran into these people, not all of them are kids by the way. The thing that gets me is in real life I would and could beat these people to death, literally with my hands, for saying the stuff they do about my mother yet they say these things and nothing happens. Even their parents don't step in. Is there any real way to deal with these people, as ignoring them is impossible for the most part because even the most hardened person will crack at some point and start a "flame".
Now, people over internet bugging me is minor. But this attitude transfers outside to real life and makes for a nasty new bunch of kids. that is the main problem. Bad parenting is part of it, after the baby boomers a ton of extra-marital births began and sloppy parenting of the average family as we see it today has taken root. But another issue at hand is how we treat others. My father has told me back in the older days he could talk to people on street, nowadays it's a no-no because many of them are peckerheads. I've experimented with this and out of 20 tries to talk to someone on the street twice I was told to "shut up" after just saying "hi" without any tone and with a smile. This is nearly the same thing that happens when you join a server and on all talk type "hi all" and half the time one person will respond with "STFU" "Shut up" "---- off" or any other phrase that's offensive on CSS, BF2142, and BF: BC2. I don't want to get started on XBox Live, it's a part of life on Live that half the server wants to desecrate your mother if you believe what they say and the reason I'm not going to buy a 360.
Does anyone else get annoyed by this attitude people are picking up in the past 2 decades? It's like an author wrote once, if everyone carried a gun then we would be a lot more polite to each other on the street because one would need to back up his word. While that's not feasible to give everyone a gun since there are idiots running around, there has to be a way to make people accountable for their behavior on the internet. I would like to see a way for this to happen, but for now I settle by dreaming of the day I can reach my hand through a punks monitor on his daddy's PC and strangle him slowly for talking bad things about my momma.

Krypsyn: As to your point about the rise and fall of civilizations; sure, it has happened before. That is why someone famous (can't recall who, off hand) said, paraphrased, that we must 'all be students of history, else we will be doomed to repeat it." It has been rather common throughout history that countries/civilizations/cultures have declined into decadence and finally ceased to exist (the holy Roman Empire being the most notable example, with ancient Greece, ancient Egypt, Sodom and Gomorrah, Babylon, and France (in the 18th Century other prime examples). I see the same thing occurring in Western countries now.

Themock: Sodom and Gomorrah never existed. That's just old herders tale from some 3000 years ago.

Themock: For the topic at hand. Every new generation does something different from the last. People 10 years younger than me feel to like they're a different race with their own different language. This is universal if not rooted out. And by rooting out I mean literally beat it out of them. Children must do things differently from their parents. It's in our genes. Now there are of course exceptions.
Then if you manage to suppress that "renegade" youth, you will be left with equilibrium. Nothing goes forward and nothing backwards. No new Media or innovations cause "We do things my way" And my way never progresses.

Themock: So let them scream their lungs out with "f''k, c''t and s''t.". They need show that they are different from us. Reality will bite their asses soon enough.

JacobNZ: Chill dude. Most people don't mean what they say. I think you need to talk to somebody.

tb87670: Yeah I like this, people are calling me crazy and say I need help because I don't like people tossing vulgarities at me. And furthermore I'm a savage because I want to bash these people if I saw them in real life when they say these things at me. I say anyone who wants to take that and do nothing about it is a bit nuts. Or nutless. Either way about it adjusting to this type culture and allowing it is not what I'm going to do. One person won't be able to do a single thing but I hope 'leading by example' will work in the long run and more people do the same.
EDIT: I had some quotes but they told me they quoted posts that didn't exist...........

Krypsyn: I believe that even if they are just a parable made up by herders, it has a nugget of truth in there someplace. Most parables do have a bases in fact, after all.
This is more than just 'doing things differently', this is a total loss of a feeling of responsibility for one's actions. Like I said in a previous post, I don't care how people live their lives, as long as they take responsibility for any mistakes they make along the way. I get tired of doing the right thing and being responsible with my life and finances, just to be punished for it by having to bail out my less mature and more myopic neighbors. There is a reason more and more people are calling the current generation the 'Entitlement Generation'
It can never be too soon to kick a whiny brat in the butt. ;) And if they scream that garbage at me, that is exactly what will happen...

robobrien: If you saw them in the street when they say these things to you? But you don't see these pricks in real life do you? It's not real life, its a part of online culture, especially gaming. And you know what? A lot of those punks who talk shit online will one day grow up and become much nicer human beings.