Violent Young Men Will Always Be With Us
David Aaronovitch in The Times today has a powerful and sensible piece.
He argues that young men will always push the limits.
Here’s the last paragraph.
Because, yes, we have been here before, with a relatively small number of young men, high on violence and low on personal skills, finding a way to drive the rest of us mad. This analysis is both gloomy and hopeful. It suggests that, short of a world war to send them to, difficult and violent young men will always be with us. The numbers matter, of course, and we can and should whittle away at them with firmness. But we won’t eradicate them altogether, and if improvement is always slow and adapting difficult, we can — of course — make things worse quickly, by reacting with impatience, prejudice and stupidity.
As he says, all of our responses must be measured. But I doubt they will be.
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