Teaching the future scum of the world to encourage suicide

Did she do it yet? Or she just announce that she will? I don't get what this hype is for. It's her business what she does, I couldn't care less what happens. But this makes for good discussion.

Why are youth so screwed up these days? I blame it on parenting. We shelter/over-protect our kids way too much. I mean back in the day, they used rulers and leather belts to teach lessons. Now parents are told to not even shout at their kids, that there are much more 'civilized' ways to deal with problems. I've seen kids shout at their parents leaving the adults powerless, this gives the kids a kind of immunity to others. The same goes for kids at school, where if a teacher does anything serious to punish a child, sometimes as little as detention, parents will go against it and file a complaint. The detention is off because the parents say so. The kids now learn that they can shout, insult, make fun of other people without punishment. Seriously, egging someone to the point where they want to commit suicide? I'm not encouraging using leather belts to make sure kids behaving, but there's a line you have to draw as a parent to what is punishable and what a good punishment should be. Letting your kids get out of line to grow up into destructive teenagers isn't right. Also leaving your kids completely alone, neglecting them turns them into angsty emo myspace whores. So I mean, parenting IS HARD but it's something we have to learn how to fix.

Also the rise of internet communication has messed with youth culture alot. My generation isn't help as we set the example for youth at the moment. All these bands are getting their own myspace, publishing on youtube. All these internet communities. There was a discussion a while back about the impact of internet/technology on today's society which has alot to do with this subject. When I was a kid, there was dailup which I didn't even have. None of this bullshit. No kids dying due to a MMO or posting their suicide attempts on myspace. So really, are the kids fully to blame? It's sad to think that someone would commit suicide, yes even that isn't acceptable. But to commit suicide because her life sucks so badly due to her peers and that she wants attention so she'll post it live on video stream? What has society become?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

@Eleo: Oh god... it wasn't disturbing but it definately was graphic. Let's just say it's something I wouldn't want to see while I'm eating my cereal.

Most disturbing thing related to that I've seen is the Kennedy footage.

There's nowhere I can't reach.