FYI - Violent street game called "Knockout".

[Mr. Grizzly Bear]

I'm always amazed at the answer so many kids give when they do horrific things like this, that they are bored. I remember being a bored kid, it never made me want to assault someone. You are really that bored? Go and volunteer your time somewhere, I don't know, a hospital, a church or a soup kitchen, doesn't matter. The cure to boredom shouldn't be violent, immoral behavior.

WORD!!!!!!

Just amazes me that these kids have nothing better to do with their time than be complete brutes and idiots There have been some instances where someone playing "Knockout" got "Glocked Out" and completely deserved it.

[Garyhead]

I see a padlock coming down the hallway.........

[Klonk]

What side will the Asians take?

[trurl]

What side will the Asians take?

Asians wait until it's over and take control.

j/k

[notallwhowander]

I'm always amazed at the answer so many kids give when they do horrific things like this, that they are bored. I remember being a bored kid, it never made me want to assault someone. You are really that bored? Go and volunteer your time somewhere, I don't know, a hospital, a church or a soup kitchen, doesn't matter. The cure to boredom shouldn't be violent, immoral behavior.

This is typical of sociopaths/psychopaths - people who for whatever reason do not have a moral conscience. While psychopathy is readily linked to serial killers, people who have additional psycho-sexual abnormalities that drive them to repeatedly murder, there are those who are less damaged, and even functional in our society. They just don't have a conscience that inherently distinguishes right from wrong. Personality traits that typically comes along with being a sociopath are being bored easily, a need for constant stimulation, as well as a complete lack of empathy or compassion.

The kids who say that they were bored usually have two things going on as well: a poor vocabulary, so they can't express themselves any better, and less social sophistication, or ability to justify themselves to authority.

In all honesty, sports programs are a better fit for these kinds of kids. Sports are very physical and sensually engaging, they just need to be monitored about cheating, because for a sociopath, it is all about getting caught and punished, not about upholding a code of conduct.

[JKL2000]

So are all those survivalists who are preparing for Armageddon expecting a race war?

[Banquo]

This is typical of sociopaths/psychopaths - people who for whatever reason do not have a moral conscience. While psychopathy is readily linked to serial killers, people who have additional psycho-sexual abnormalities that drive them to repeatedly murder, there are those who are less damaged, and even functional in our society. They just don't have a conscience that inherently distinguishes right from wrong. Personality traits that typically comes along with being a sociopath are being bored easily, a need for constant stimulation, as well as a complete lack of empathy or compassion.

The kids who say that they were bored usually have two things going on as well: a poor vocabulary, so they can't express themselves any better, and less social sophistication, or ability to justify themselves to authority.

In all honesty, sports programs are a better fit for these kinds of kids. Sports are very physical and sensually engaging, they just need to be monitored about cheating, because for a sociopath, it is all about getting caught and punished, not about upholding a code of conduct.

Explain O.J. Simpson

[Scott Bails]

Explain O.J. Simpson

He would be the poster child, wouldn't he? Excelled greatly at sports, but when that career was over, he lost his outlet and took it out on Nicole.

[Banquo]

He would be the poster child, wouldn't he? Excelled greatly at sports, but when that career was over, he lost his outlet and took it out on Nicole.

That's a bit of a stretch. He didn't kill anyone during his playing years because he was too busy setting rushing records? Please. I don't doubt that he murdered his wife, but it wasn't because he was predisposed.

[Scott Bails]

I dunno....as an amateur psychologist, I can see how his violence was channeled into football.

[Klonk]

But he did once rescue a cat from a towering inferno.

[notallwhowander]

Explain O.J. Simpson

I don't understand this. How are these things connected?

[Banquo]

I don't understand this. How are these things connected?

They're not. I'm just messin' with your head. Go back to sleep.

[notallwhowander]

Very good. Carry on, then...

[Banquo]

I dunno....as an amateur psychologist, I can see how his violence was channeled into football.

Well, that's the problem with amateur psychology. It's amateur.

[Scott Bails]

Whatever, man.

[Shadow]

Well, that's the problem with amateur psychology. It's amateur.

When you really look at it, that's all psycology is, a person with a degree making an amateur guess.

[ronmac]

When you really look at it, that's all psycology is, a person with a degree making an amateur guess.

Well, that's a bit too dismissive, IMO.

BTW, "professional" simply means you get paid.

[Plasmatopia]

BTW, "professional" simply means you get paid.

As in the sentence "tonight I am a professional musician". LOL

[Hal...]

...there are those who are less damaged, and even functional in our society. They just don't have a conscience that inherently distinguishes right from wrong.

I'm not sure that applies in this case. When young males get together in a group with no supervision, you never know what they're going to come up with. I see this as no different than a passed out, drunken college girl gang raped by a bunch of frat boys.

[JKL2000]

I'm not sure I have my Knockout attacks straight, but just reading about a Brooklyn guy who was charged for trying to Knockout a 78 year old woman. Really? He was going to brag about being able to knockout a 78 year old woman with one punch?

[Rune Blackwings]

I'm not sure I have my Knockout attacks straight, but just reading about a Brooklyn guy who was charged for trying to Knockout a 78 year old woman. Really? He was going to brag about being able to knockout a 78 year old woman with one punch?

the thing that gets me is when they video themselves doing crap like that and put it up on youtube.