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Bass_is_UVBlue t1_ivc0rp2 wrote

Reply to comment by LakeSun in Thank yous by shaneroneill

It's possible to not be a mature human, and also not be an asshole.

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toss_it_out_tomorrow t1_ivda5wz wrote

Yep, that's totally true. I was a seriously bad teenager and I still never did shit like this. I grew up in a neighborhood that slowly started going bad and looking worse and worse every single day and it made me so mad. I would never destroy something pretty no matter how much of an asshole teen I was.

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woo545 t1_ivdmauw wrote

It's not necessarily doing stuff to be an asshole, though. A male's frontal cortex doesn't finish developing until the late 20's. This results in teen boys doing incredibly stupid, impulsive things and not realizing what they've done until after the act has been completed (if at all). It's exponentially worse with each teen boy added to the mix.

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-zero-joke- t1_ivdz1r3 wrote

I'm a high school teacher in Philly, I see a lot of kids. I've taught in urban, suburban, rural, public, and charter schools. Never private. The type of kid that would do this is exceptionally rare. The kids are by and large mostly alright.

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cherryreddracula t1_ivejxp7 wrote

Agreed. I did stupid shit as a young male, but I think most peers who saw someone do this would be thinking something's loose in their head.

This is some anti-social shit.

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woo545 t1_ivgek0y wrote

I'm just saying that boys just do the dumbest things imaginable when left to their own devices. Things where you just like, "really?! wtf were you thinking?" Most of those things, you snicker behind their back. Other times, you get angry about how callous they were. When in the end, they weren't thinking.

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SouthPhilly_215 t1_ive6537 wrote

The gentrifiers are the assholes. But yeah this is excessive.

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