BronxWench

We're going to have to agree to disagree, then. I suspect that you will, in time, understand exactly why I've taken the position I have. I'm old enough to have seen a great deal, and I've learned how little I know, but I do know that the answer is not to excuse the ADULTS who were responsible for teaching these children how to be reasonably decent human beings.

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Yes, but that doesn't sound as pretty when you shout it from a pulpit, does it? Me, I'll stick with my bow.

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If they have serious mental issues, then by all the gods, they should NOT have been reading creepypasta. That scares adults, ffs. It only reinforces what I said, that parents have an obligation to make sure they know where their children are surfing on the Internet. And a large part of what's wrong with the Internet generation is that there is NO concept of consequences. No one expects them to take responsibility for their actions. No one wants to say, "You screwed up, and you are going to receive a punishment." I knew that if I screwed up, I was going to get spanked, lose privileges, and be generally miserable until I'd been deemed sufficiently punished. Guess what? I grew up to be a fairly good person, who gets involved with the community, obeys the law, works hard, pays taxes, and doesn't litter. I've raised two children. I have one who's 19 and one who's 16, and I monitored their Internet usage. They earned privileges based on both age and how well they obeyed the restrictions I'd imposed on where they could surf. Neither one of them has ever shown any inclination to lure classmates into the woods and stab them to prove to a fictional character that they were "worthy." And if they ever had entertained such gruesome notions, I'd have known about it long before it got past the "what if we..." stage. I understood that kids don't spring into the world with a font of altruism waiting to be unleashed. They're largely amoral, selfish, impatient, and not at all empathetic. It's up to parents to instill some sort of values in their children. I'm not playing with theory here. I've lived it, and I'm speaking from experience. It's not rocket science, people. It's called parenting. It's what OUR parents did, and it works.

Try Sheogorath. ;D

By the gods, it worked!

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That's marvelous! Congratulations!

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Honestly, as the legal guardians of the girls that did the stabbings, their parents ARE responsible under the law. The fact that we rarely push to punish the parents doesn't make it unreasonable to think that they might bear some of the blame. We're fast enough to blame parents if a kid finds a gun and shoots a cousin. How is this different? When will we realize that kids need watching, and it starts AT HOME? It's well past time that we started to expect people to be responsible. You bring a child into this world, and you are responsible for raising that child, feeding them, educating them, and teaching them how to be a productive member of society. You don't buy them a laptop at ten and say, "Have fun." You make sure they know what's right and what's wrong. It's no one else's responsibility. Yes, the other girl is alive, but can you imagine how this will color her life? Not only now, when she's injured, in the hospital, and no doubt scared half to death, but years from now. Who's going to be there when she suffers PTSD, or has nightmares? Who puts her life back together for her and makes it all okay again? No one can give her back what she lost thanks to these two little monsters.

You know what? As a parent, I really have to say that 12-year olds need to be monitored when it comes to the Internet, and I do think the parents were remiss. No 12 year old is mature enough to be allowed free rein on the Internet, and it's the job of those of us who are parents to KNOW where our kids are surfing. It's not the job of the Internet to police our kids. We are the legal guardians, the adults, and we need to assume responsibility.

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I've asked a friend who uses a Mac book to check, and she says she uses the CMD key for selecting multiple options, which is allowing her to select more than one story code. And because I'm already being Captain Obvious no doubt, you're holding the button before you click the code, yes?

My pleasure, and always glad to help!

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That is, actually, how foe and I met. He asked, I answered.

And the proper link is: Boy in the Grass

Look at the url line at the top of your browser when you're on the page with the author's profile. At the end, you'll see a number, like this: http://members.adult-fanfiction.org/profile.php?no=1296892487 (This link won't work because I edited the ID to highlight it, but it's my author profile which I'm using as an example.) That number is the author ID. You can copy and paste that number into the field in your profile. It's the same thing with stories. The story ID will be the numbers at the end of the url line.

The total for characters includes both the summary itself and the story codes, so I think that sometimes makes it harder. We tend to forget that codes can eat up a huge amount of the limit. If you need to, we do allow the story codes to be added at the top of the first chapter as a separate author's note. We don't count that toward an author's note limit, either, since we treat it as part of the story details.