>>>in the old days, teens did not have time to get bored easily working in their parents fields
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>>Don't know about your family. No one in mine has worked fields for many generations (at least 4, possibly many more than that), and neither did our teens exorcise their boredom by harming random people.
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>>Tamar
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>I agree that boredom is a very lousy excuse for random violence. I am sure right now there are tens of thousands of bored kids aimlessly roaming the streets but not thinking of harming someone (let alone killing).

This was my point. Most bored kids don't go out looking for someone to hurt. What was going on with these three that they made that choice?

Tamar