When I was young assholes got punched in the nose, at the very least.

[shockey80]

Today people can say , do whatever they want , hurting people and they pay no price. If you punch them you get arrested. This is one of the biggest cultural changes that has taken place in our country.

When I was young, if you crossed a line you would pay a price, someone would kick your ass. It was not accepted. Today in American you can say and do anything that hurts people, cross lines and you do not pay a price. Someone has to sue you, Barf.

[dware]

1. So what's your solution?

Go back to violence to solve problems?

Kick someone's ass because you don't like what they say or what political persuasion they are?

[shockey80]

5. Yes, there are some things that should not be accepted in our culture.

I am not talking gun violence. I am talking about your parents, peers, even your friends kicking your ass if you crossed a line. That's how it was when I young. Now there are no lines in our culture today.

[jberryhill]

6. Parents don't beat their children enough?

Is that it?

Are you complaining that nobody is beating you?

One of the things that is not accepted in my culture, as it turns out, is parents doing just that.

[dware]

7. So, as a society, we resort back to violence because

someone thinks someone crossed a line?

[jberryhill]

8. It's good if you are the one picking the lines

Like, if your children aren’t straight or hang around with the wrong people, a good ass-whooping does the trick, I guess.

[dware]

10. That seems to be what the OP is saying. nt

[marble falls]

11. That would be my thought, too. "This will hurt me more than it will you!"

[Journeyman]

2. "Blood begets blood," sayeth the Witches in 'Macbeth' . . .

"Violence does even justice unjustly." ~ Thomas Carlyle

[OnDoutside]

3. Are you roleplaying Monty Burns ?

[jberryhill]

4. This was preferable in what way?

Donald Trump has said pretty much the identical thing relative to protesters at his events.

[Under The Radar]

9. Bloody nose last a couple hours, hurt feelings a day or two

....but it is legal for the president to ruin me financially destroying a 150 year old family business because he thinks tariffs and trade wars are good, legal for him to take away food assistance from people with no means to buy food, affordable medicine and healthcare is gone, which all lead to death, to me makes him a murderer. But I go to jail for terroristic assault for warning him that I will beat his ass. Go figure

[marble falls]

12. And that was as fucked up then as it is now. The good old days has a freaking dark side, too.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

13. I wonder if all that nose-punching is what got us here today.

[jberryhill]

16. "punched in the nose, at the very least" mind you

[WhiskeyGrinder]

17. Right, right!

[Dennis Donovan]

14. Batman fan when you were a kid?

[sarisataka]

15. That's what society needs today

More violence

[Under The Radar]

18. Hang in there shocky

I feel the same as you.

[Thomas Hurt]

19. One of my high school classmates moved to LA area.

Went to the beach, came back to his car, some dude had broken in and was bent over in the driver's seat trying to get his stereo out.

My classmate kicked the thief in the balls. Not sure whether he ran off or the cops got him, but the thief sued him.

Never did hear how that turned out.