Well, a lot of high school kids of yesteryear were not actually high school kids. They were laborers, or signed up early for the military, or dropped out to take care of parents, or to look after younger siblings, etc., but I suppose that's really beside the point.

Nor did they have to deal with all the pressures and stresses of rapid scientific, technological, political, racial, cultural, class, and social change, which stresses even adults, as we all know.

They were also a smaller overall percentage of the population in most times, i.e., than we've had since the baby boom, and to some extent, more recently.

But high school shootings now apparently being the primary measure of all things bad and evil (for Xeno), plenty of horrendous crimes were committed, but because they were crimes of a different nature, like unreported and unpunished rapes, and unreported and unpunished wife and child beatings, and unreported and unpunished murders of blacks and homosexuals, etc., I suppose they didn't really happen and don't really count so far as you are concerned.

I suppose this could go on and on as you have now accused me of not having an argument without actually having a particularly coherent or empirically supported one yourself, but obviously, as always, at least when it comes to Xeno, there is no point to any of this.

In terms of how our modern moral decay may or not be worse or more pervasive than other times, I was not claiming to have the truth. For the most part, I have not even argued against many of the points and assumptions you are making. I don't claim to know that what I have offered is the explanation for anything. I was simply asking you, and others, to consider, and perhaps even examine and think about, some other possible explanations for some of what you so self-servingly (considering your political/social philosophy) assume, but I see that it is pointless ...

And strangely, it is not all that rewarding to discuss this, or anything else, with someone who has so obviously and completely closed their mind. Who would have thought? Go figure.

And in any case, at the moment, I've much, much better things to do.