Are we a nation of whiners?

[BigV]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

Some people are laying the blame on a generation deliberately encouraged to be narcissistic by inflation of their self-esteem, whether solidly founded or no. Fox News just ran a segment on that today -- featuring a minutes-long cut of an office surveillance cam showing a youthful office guy shoving and punching other cubicle-people, chucking papers around, hurling one computer monitor after another around the place and kicking cubicle partitions over until he falls on his ass on a desk. No one tackles him...

or shoots him.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by BigV

or shoots him.

That would have settled his hash. Of course, there's the question of overreaction to be settled like the hash...

Robert Heinlein asked, by implication, in several places in his fictional oeuvre, "How much of a spanking do you have to give an adult? And if he needs a spank, is he an adult?"