Police arrest 2 teens in Ga. baby killing

[CanSocDem]

80. Another regularly scheduled teaching moment...

...in the Excited States of America.

What will you do with it, this time? Same as usual? Spend a week or two fretting about the victims and the perpetrators; get jiggy with each other about the proper punishment for the 'bad' guys and then sit back, satisfied that the Criminal Justice Industry will make it all better.

Here's a suggestion. If curbing violence in the society is in the public interest,and as democratic activists you see some personal responsibility to act in this pursuit, it would seem your time could be better spent doing something other than jumping around, waving your arms and 'doubling down' on every righteous principal you ever held.

We had an high school exercise, in the 70's where we would calm the raging hormones of all the 'intellectual alpha dogs' in the room by forming small groups, and have them all work on the same question. Class discussion would center around the group decisions where extraneous crazy talk had already been dismissed as 'irrelevant' or non-productive.

The question of discovering the causes of violence in our society and the methods and principles we use to eliminate it deserve more attention than we seem to be able to give. Rather than violently expressing ones outrage at the outrageous violence of another, why don't you get into groups and present a consensus opinion of why is there such violence in our society. Use 'current events' as a source.

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