Today's College Students More Likely to Lack Empathy

TERRIFIC!! i think this is great, i mean whats more excellent then our future being self confident and assured? if anything the next few years should be more promising for america as a whole, well except for Obama. And as far as other peoples problems, i have a myriad of my own trials and obstacles, go whine about your own to someone else, you dont see me complaining about a disabled schitzophrenic mom or finnancially disadvantaged life. Work for yourself and earnt things on your own merits, NO MORE HANDOUTS

anthony of TX 12:21AM May 30, 2010

You should have spent more time with Lisa from Florida and encouraged her to get a college education. You see she is a simpleton who thinks that the world has simple problems that need simple solutions. Of course problem A only needs to be solved with solution B. If we all just had normal names, like your daughter Lisa, then the problem would be solved solved. No need to think about other externalities.

Joe (Good simple name) of CA 11:56PM May 29, 2010

I am a fan of unique names, to think something like that can create such a complex impact or widespread is just faulty reasoning. Not all the children that are in the "generation me" have names that are spelled weird do they?

Liszaa of VA 11:47PM May 29, 2010

What did anyone expect? It's considered "abusive" to teach your kids anything these days. Spankings are only fit for barbarian parents, and sending your kid to their rooms without supper is fit only for a visit from child services. When our kids are taught that they're the most important people, too precious for harm to ever come to them, especially from the people that love them, then of COURSE they won't know what to do when those situations arise. And if they don't even CARE, because they don't know that severe penalties will await them, why should they even TRY to empathize?

It gets even better for the teachers; they have to deal with self-righteous little know-it-alls who feel they deserve an A without trying. They'll argue that cheating isn't cheating, and that the simple act of payment was enough to get an otherwise-free ride. Then throw self-righteous parents into the mix, the kind who doesn't think their kids are capable of evil, and you've got a surefire way to ensure your kids will be socially braindead for life. Punishment is a thing of the past. These days, no one's interested in their own faults, only everyone else's.

deaky of HI 11:43PM May 29, 2010