Underaged brother

Does anyone remember the person who posted awhile back, claiming to be a teen, and on one hand claimed to be scarred by seeing SL pixel porn, and on the other hand accused LL of being guilty of abuse by not allowing teens on the main grid, and that society was abusing teens by not letting them look at adult material? A bit reminiscent.

I considered it, but if so, there is nothing anyone here can do. The person needs RL, professional help.

It's also pay day for me!

I have a sneaking suspicion the OP is self-abusing himself to this thread in that way that makes your palms hairy.

eww

And now I am going to sue LL for mental anguish at that visual. It's clearly their fault.

My first thought on reading the OP was "Oh, Rebecca made an alt."

If it isn't her, it is someone much like her.

OP, tell your brother he can meet lots of HAWT Elf chicks in WoW and they all want the sexies.

You know, there are plenty of kids out there who had good parenting, and still make bad choices, even criminal choices. Just as there are plenty of kids who have suffered abuse and piss-poor parenting who lead stellar lives. This kind of blanket "it's all the parents' fault" statement does not take into account individual personalities and free will, and in its own way, is just as wrong-headed as its converse. There really are no blanket statements about human behavior, and it's just as wrong to place all the blame on parents as it is to place all the blame on LL, for example.

well, i didn't take into account mental illness...... but the law says a person under age 18 is accountable to their guardian and their actions are the responsibility of the guardian. i didn't make it up, i just agree with its comon sense.

I understand what Allegria is saying. There is a difference between blame and responsibilty. Blame does signify ome sort of negligence or misdeed. And in a parenting sense, it may not be the case, they aren't at fault. But they are always responsible for the childs actions.

1. I don't believe this guy exists

2. If he exists he is the same guy as his "brother"

3. Either way I don't care.

If someone wants to start a thread about underage players then fine, just don't do it like this.

Pep (Would it be different if the brother was a sister and an escort?)

chop his hands off, that way its really hard to use the computer and more difficult to commit suicide.

but what if he bites off his tongue and tries to choke himself on his own blood, like that boxer girl in Milliion Dollar Baby?

Well, actualy, paraphrasing a bit, you said kids who get into trouble with the law typically have bad parents. I'm just taking issue with that generalization.

People under 18 also have responsibility for their own choices. I'm not talking law, here, BTW. I'm talking morality in its broadest sense. Yes, parents have a responsibility to discipline their children, but children also bear a moral responsibility for their own actions. And, I think there are many juvenile offenders who have good, well-meaning and responsible parents. The converse is also true, that many have poor, abusive, and irresponsible parents.

It's very popular in our culture to blame parents when kids go wrong, as Skell said "a culture of blame." I think it behooves us all to take a look at some of our knee-jerk reactions, and realize that, as tempting as it is in our complex world to look for simple, tidy solutions to the myriad ills of our society, answers to our problems are not simple. They are as complex and difficult as the world we live in, and usually are not "one size fits all."

Anyway, 3Ring, I don't mean to pick on you, I just wanted to challenge your assumption, and I've said a lot more than i usually do on the forums... lol. Probably making myself a target for someone!

i take personal responsibility for my children's actions. they are not perfect, and they have done (and do) lots of dumb things. DUMB things. a parent cannot be in all places at all times. of course. even though i probe and question and call around i still get tricked and surprised by some of the DUMB things they do. but it is MY job to make them accountable and suffer the consequences, and because they know i will back up my promise to make them accountable, it keeps them from doing even more dumb things.... but to be fair, they have done some DUMB things that i had no idea was going on, but at the time i allowed myself to be sidetracked with a job... i thought i was paying attention, but i wasn't. i blame myself. they suffer for my bad parenting.

sure there's going to be a percentage of children who have some sort of issue that goes beyond 'normalcy' that will affect their behavior and actions... but again, if a parent was paying attention they would know this about their child and make the proper accomodations to prevent the scenerios described above.

i don't feel picked on. i am listening to you.

and please don't concern over becoming a target.... do you REALLY care about trolls and pea ess why sea ayche oh's who will twist your intentions to make some sort of whacked out case to make themselves feel better?

Better sue the ISP provider while yall are at it,after all that internet connection provides a whole world of mature material someone can scam their way in to seein.

I think that the OP should sue God for making people be born under the age of 18.

I already tried that, turns out all he had was a bag of weed an a heavenly bong.

I thought that was the American way nowadays?

If you know that he is using your neighbor's internet connection, the right thing to do would be to warn them. There are steps they can take to secure their wireless connection so he cannot access it. As it stands, they now become liable for anything he is doing - and you standing by and letting that happen without saying a word to them makes you complicit in his doing that to them.

TO the OP

I strongly suggest that if your post is legit you do 2 things.
1. get psychological help for your brother. Suicide threats are no joke.

and

2. get psychological help for yourself. You obviously have issues with negativity. Many people here have presented some very good advice and all you can do is attack everything. For you the world will always suck because you are unwilling to change it. Get help now and be a much happier person.

*thinks OP is a 40 yr old guy who is lonely for attention and using a strange avenue for it.

It's okay dude. Really. You CAN talk about it here.

Think about that...

Do you really want to be pregnant with them until they hit 18?



Don't blame America. It's the way of the world. I've seen plenty of Europeans with the same attitude - blaming the government for everything that is wrong with them, and I suspect the reason I haven't see people from the other parts of the world with that attitude is that outside of the US, Canada and Europe, I don't know very many people because of the language barrier.

I can't believe I'm defending the only person on my mute list, but to her credit, Rebecca usually is perfectly willing to say her piece as herself, no matter how incredibly nutty or offensive it is. She doesn't hide behind alts.