Those were fun times but I don't remember anybody being killed or even beat up. Can't speak for everyone but me and my friends figured out pretty quickly back in the 90s that the internet isn't real life. You don't have to look very far to see that there are a lot of younger folks who haven't seemed to have figured that out yet.
I have anecdotal evidence that a BBS altercation turned into a showdown at ye olde local pub in the mid 90s. The difference is today it would've been on social media and maybe gone viral.
I believe whatever issues are happening are definitely on the shoulders of the parents. A LOT of kids these days aren't raised, they're housed.
I also believe that there are plenty of fine examples of young people in this generation as BoilerDown stated. If a person is so inclined, there's still plenty of opportunity to excel.
What bothers me though, and again I blame the fact that due to the internet stuff that would've never been seen by people outside the room when it happened in the past is suddenly readily available. Like people showing up to job interviews with their parent sitting in on the interview, etc etc. Maybe that did happen a couple times now and again last century, but nobody knew about it.
People talking about microagressions and needing to feel safe and unoffended, you never saw that kind of thing 20 years ago, or if you did there weren't enough people saying it in one spot at one time to gain much traction. All thanks to the ability to communicate.
Wiley.
