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Synesthesia
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I'm watching Maury Povish. He has all of these 10 year old thugs on.
TEN YEARS OLD! [Eek!]
How the heck can ten year olds be smoking, having sex, drinking and doing drugs? And these mothers just weep about it and do notbing to discipline them!
Why do I torture myself this way?

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It could be morbid curiosity. Why do people gawk at car accidents?
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Because it makes you look normal by comparison? [Wink]
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Synesthesia
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It really does nothing to make me feel better. It makes me so grumpy. it makes no sense that kids this age should be acting like this!
And does putting them on shows like this really help them or exploit them by saying, "Look how bad these children are."

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I once read this book where children devolved into gangs from birth in the forgotten streets of Rotterdam...

All we have to do is keep sliding.

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quote:
And does putting them on shows like this really help them or exploit them by saying, "Look how bad these children are."
In what possible way could it be helping them? Programs like this are the modern equivalent of the carnival freak show, plain and simple.
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Humans like to see themselves as better off, its natural, so Oprah rules the world.

Rhaegar

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