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Originally posted by Cam22
In regards to the Natalee Holloway case- It's very sad and I feel for the family but what the HECK were they thinking when they allowed her to take a trip to Aruba with her friends (with chaperones or not) as a Highschool Senior.
I never ever would have allowed it. My parents would not have allowed me to go either when I was that age. |
My parents woulda let me go. Most trouble I woulda gotten myself into would have been getting speeding tickets on the bike. If my kids grow up to be partiers, they sure as hell won't be allowed out of the house. If they grow up to be typical teens that can think for themselves, then let them go, they need to be "let go" sometime.
Some people enjoy that lifestyle. Most young people do. Unfortunately some have to pay the price to do so and the rest of us have to live with the repercussions. So a carful of high school seniors gets killed every year on prom night while driving drunk! Uh oh, better put a law into effect that makes everyone else's lives horrible by making the licensing age older! Because those kids didn't know that speed + alcohol + prom night adds up to TRAGEDY! Yeah, lets make a law! That'll show those 4 kids who are dead! And the rest of us to who were smart and played the game the right way are STILL fucked. Not only are we put into the same boat as those people but we now have to suffer because of their mistakes.
My girlfriend was talking about a 12 year old kid who could make macaroni and cheese on his own. She was amazed. Then I told her that I used to come home from school to an empty house, start the wood stove, bring in wood and make MYSELF food with the stove. She didn't believe me. It took my mother confirming for her to realize that not all kids/people are as stupid as the people you see on the news. That Natalee Holloway girl was an idiot to travel 800 miles to another country, get that trashed, leave her friends, go home with some strangers, etc. Yeah, it shouldn't of happened, but I don't bring my life savings to north springfield and count it on the sidewalk either. That stripper at Duke should have known better. The kids at that party with the stripper should have known better. That girl in new york that got raped and killed by the ex-con after she spent till 3am drunk off her ass to the point where she needed help walking with no friends with her in a bar? She should have known better. There are bad people out there. Accidents also happen. Shit happens. DON'T THINK LIKE SHIT.
It's not about saying "How can you say that? She/he wan't in the wrong!!!", it's about saying "Any other person would have been smart enough to keep themselves out of an obviously bad situation".
End of rant.