Is insanity in genes or are these mutants?

It sure looks like it...that was shocking...a few days before there was a girl trying some stunts in Mumbai locals. What are they trying to prove? Is it the effect of movies like Krish?

@vandana7 , yes, you can say so, there was a boy who jumped from the balcony of the movie theater to injure himself very badly after watching the movie then when it was released!

@vandana7 , Yes, That is true! but who will bell the Cat?

Is it a case of "Look I have been so stupid"..."Hey wait, I am stupider than you"...?

@much2say Hopefully, trend will go...

@vandana7 Yep - it's somehow cool to be stupid - how stupid!!

This is height of it...the person behind them must fear that the sword will be hurled at them. From where are they learning such stupid things.

I am because that is a city that is one of the most civilized and average person there is better behaved and better educated than elsewhere in this country.

@vandana7 I see.

There are no laws for that.. because there are no precedents.

@MALUSE The problem here is laws are in English. 90 percent of the lawyers are not good with English. Moreover, unlike in the west, lawyers here are desperate for clients. So they are Jacks of all trade, Aces of none. They take up the case and take ages to go through relevant sections. Fees being low, they have to take up more cases so they agree to everything that the client says whether they know it to be actionable or not. Fees is collected upfront so they know the client is going nowhere.

@vandana7 Laws are general, not precise. The word sword doesn't have to be mentioned in a law. I'm sure that you have a law against causing public nuisance and endangering people and traffic with your behaviour

That is why I say we have mutated in this fashion...once upon a time, we were sane too.

@vandana7 You seem a sane woman to me, Vanny. It's the rest of the world around you that's gone berserk.

I hope so too. This kind of thing needs to be punished, and punished harshly so that the next person does not resort to such things.

@vandana7 I fully agree, the punishment must be a warning for the others.

I could not agree more with you and have long advocated that...it makes people healthy and disciplined apart from able to defend themselves or the country at any time. India desperately needs such measures.

I am wondering exactly that...insane don't you think?

Yeah..it looks like for sure.

This is really really weird thing to be copying, don't you think?

I think much of it has to do with mothers working? In the past, most ladies were housewives. Suddenly the generation finds liberties at school and liberties at home. They are kind of free birds till mothers return from offices, and mothers are often too tired to be able to monitor their activities, what with Internet being around making monitoring difficult. To top it all, they also feel guilty that they are not giving sufficient attention to their kids, so tend to relieve their conscience by indulging their kids with expensive toys. Just saying...this might be the reason. But it does not seem to be the case always. Most of the gangrapes in our country are done by economically weaker sections...meaning it could be rage against the gender for usurping the jobs that could have come to them or progressing faster. In this case, it is pure stupidity...insanity...

I think childhood has changed. For one, Internet has become inseparable part of children's lives. Second thing and this is crucial ..we have really expanded in population, leaving no room for our kids to go out and play the games that would work their hormones. Our social systems have also crumbled. In the past, there were somethings that children did at home, for their parents and grandparents. In the past we climbed stairs. I know I climbed my first office stairs. Now, the issue is children only use lifts. When I was a kid, I carried mattress up the stairs to sleep out. Now we have air conditioners. And finally, we have working women. In the past, people were careful with their monies. Now people are fine with splurging, and children think it is ok.

@vandana7 That is the point. Children are still the same but the modern childhood does not meet their developmental needs and we see such behaviors.