Just another example of how society is circling the pan right now, especially with the attitudes of a lot of the younger generation (I'm 50 before anyone asks). These days, everything that goes against them is considered a personal affront, even someone getting the better of them in a game. A clean hit in hockey used to be greeted with a muttered "nice hit," now it almost always results in a fight. Taunting and trash-talking is the rule, not the exception. Respect for authority is lower than it's ever been, the sense of entitlement never higher. They have to have everything and they have to have it now, earning it the old-fashioned way be damned.
Back when I was a teenager if you had a beef with someone, you took it into the parking lot after school and bare-knuckled it until someone won, then it was over. These days, you've got the loser coming back with a knife or a gun and escalating the situation. If you ****ed up in school, you dreaded going home because the punishment would be even worse than what the school dished out; now you've got parents expecting the schools to be babysitters, yet scream bloody murder if their kid is so much as looked at the wrong way by a teacher. And kids getting failing marks in school? You're having a laugh, at least over here.
No one, it seems, is accountable for their own actions any more.
