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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by testfoobar on Friday December 30, 2022 @08:02PM (#34192105)
> In contrast, my sons grew up in a world that is senselessly unforgiving and penalistic, with few breaks from adults and little chance to explore life on their own terms.

Teenage boys in particular now face an incredibly punitive culture in America. Everything is on video. The online mob will form and demand jail time for the slightest thing. How are teenage boys supposed to learn right from wrong?

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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by barganzo on Friday December 30, 2022 @10:37PM (#34193270)
From sex traffickers like Andrew Tate and their “lul pepe fren pog based” reputation launderers like Milo Yiannopoulos, Luke Smith, Peter Thiel, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, etc.
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by thebigman433 on Saturday December 31, 2022 @01:14AM (#34194135)
Can you give examples of exactly what youre talking about here?
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Re:Young adults are struggling with their mental health by dopeboy on Saturday December 31, 2022 @06:04AM (#34195350)
Boys fight physically. Fights would happen at my HS once-ish a month. The staff would break it up, detentions would be served, and life would go on.

Now each fight is recorded and saved for life. The short term consequences of that are not trivial - word spreads, video spreads, reputations build and now a dumb mistake is a whole moment.

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