"Monkey see, monkey do"
You know, the first thing my parents would have told me (loudly) would have been "If all your friends jumped off a cliff, would you do it too?"
I remember when I was a kid, i tried to turn my schwinn into a motorcycle. I took aluminum foil, made tailpipes with it, and shoved it full of paper, foam, whatever else I could find. Then poured gas in there, wet it all down. I lit it all on fire, so it would smoke real good, and rode away. I was so proud of my "motorcycle" I rode to where my dad was washing the car to show him. I got sprayed down so fast I didn't know what was happening. Then I got grounded for a long time of anything interesting. Why did I do it? I was a six year old boy who wanted to imitate something I saw. And boy I learned real quick that what I see and reality are often two different things.
Kids are exposed to love muffin like stuff all the time. Whether it's cartoons (remember Wile E. Coyote getting anviled, or blown up, etc) to action movies. Someone should tell these kids that if they try this stuff it will actually hurt them. How many times to we see the cartoon character dead because of the gunshot (usually they just go OW! and run away).
So where are the parents? I think they lost their balls when society started saying that there is no right or wrong. They say there are no moral absolutes (horsepucky).
love muffin is just another cartoon where some guys did something stupid, may have got hurt, but we still watch because it's funny as hell the same way roadrunner was funny. Dumb, maybe, but dumber still are the people who raise kids to think this stuff won't hurt them.
