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10-Year-Old Shot Dead on Thanksgiving—Allegedly by Dad
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Given family holidays can be very stressful and violent in bad families, I have to wonder if that poor kid said something dad didn't like, or cried, or whined, or otherwise was a completely normal kid and the dad lost his shit and shot him for it. Then came up with "I thought I saw a thief!" to get away with it.
Like, everyone in this thread is assuming the dad actually heard a thief. But I think that should be questioned, too. It's so common for bad families to slap kids around during thanksgiving. My uncle once lost his shit over something stupid and threw his half-paralyzed mom (she'd had a stroke not too long before) out of her chair onto the floor.
There just aren't enough details to say right now. What you're saying is possible definitely but it's impossible to be sure if anything other than a child was killed. Anger is the worst human emotion in my opinion. Seneca calls it a form of temporary madness.
Agreed. I have an anger problem and I hate it. I can remain calm if I'm prepared for it, but if something takes me off gaurd (or I reach peek frustration) I react before I have time to think.
It's super annoying, often embarrassing, and the worst of me. It's like things start happening and my hire-order thinking is just straight-up offline until I've said something horrible, stormed off, or thrown something like a toddler. It's like I have to struggle to catch up to what my body is doing
The only blessing is that I'm physically weak as shit, (and I married a strong man who is chill/non-reactive)
I wish I could rewire my instinct to fight out of me, but meditation makes me fall asleep
any kind of neurodivergent diagnosis? Anger issues happen to most of us I'm afraid.
ADHD- combined tyoe
I can sympathize. Here's a video that I found useful. I work on this daily. Some days I excel and other days I fall short. I think of myself as a rage addict and when I fall off the wagon. I try to reflect, not get angry with myself (because that's just feeding the addiction), and get back on track. It's a constant struggle.
Very nice. I disagree. If you aren't angry you aren't paying attention. World is going to shit by just about every measure you care to name.
I try to not get angry because I don't think it solves anything and while there are a lot of things wrong with the world there are good trends. Global rates of extreme poverty were close to 70% in the early 80s and are now below 47% and continuing down. source. Global birth rates have been steadily declining source, which is a factor in global poverty as well as reducing world hunger (this trended down for years but recently he has unfortunately increased). Global education has improved now only 1 in five adults have never received any education source. Anger didn't improve any of these situations. Ask a professional or amateur fighter (I've personally talked with boxers about this) going into a fight angry almost guarantees you'll lose.
Is rent and housing prices higher in the developing world this year compared to last year? Answer the question or don't bother responding
So your only definition of the "world going to shit" is housing prices? I clearly said that there are a lot of problems in the world.
Housing is a serious issue and while nationally prices probably won't be going significantly down there are some places where the price has gone down. Not enough to be sure unfortunately.
How does getting angry solve that problem? How does getting angry solve any problem? If getting angry doesn't solve the problem what might?
Neoliberal can't answer a fucking question
I'm not an economist. I'm not sure about world prices. I answered the question the best I can with the knowledge I have.
One definition of neoliberslism is: A political ideology or ideological trend based on neoclassical economics that espouses economic liberalism, favouring trade liberalisation, financial deregulation, a small government, privatisation and liberalisation of government businesses, passive antitrust enforcement, accepting greater economic inequality and disfavouring unionisation.
I don't support any of that.
Yes or no
Yes or no what?
The guy you are arguing with is an idiot trying to make you angry to "win" because you said to not get angry. Just ignore the troll.
If I come across as arguing then that's a mistake on my part.
Don't really find you to be arguing lol.
Have house prices gone up yes or no?
Worldwide? I don't know. In the US? Yes they've gone up. In the summer prices began to dip but in autumn they rose again. Some towns and cities in California, Texas, Kentucky, Washington state, and Oregon have declined. Most places are holding. It doesn't look like prices will go down in the near future.
Now my questions:
Good you answered a yes or no question. I am done with you now. Go hang out with the other neoliberal losers.
You're free to talk with me or not. You can dismiss me as a neoliberal if you want but that doesn't describe me all at. In our whole conversation I've made primarily two points: (1) anger is neither a good nor productive emotion and (2) while the world has many serious problems, over the decades consistent progress has been made to improve the situation of most of the world's population. Generally, if trends continue the future will be better than the past for a lot of people (the recent uptick in world hunger going against the previous trend of reduced hunger is a counterargument).
Even if it was a thief ending a life is not a proportional response.