The results can be seen in our attitudes and behaviors. Bullying used to be wrong - now we cheer for grown men who get paid millions of dollars to bully on athletic playing fields and courts. Rather than deciding to respond to bullying by examining God's truth to discover God's will for handling adversity, the supreme guide for making decisions becomes individual preference based on personal feelings. The bullied now bully back. Third, today's world of adolescent music and media fills the void left in the wake of parental silence and moral confusion by offering kids plenty of guidance and direction on how to handle interpersonal conflict.
Video games train kids to fight and kill.
Some kids exact revenge by venting their rage in the video fantasy world. A few, take their fantasies off the screen and live them out in the real world. The increasingly popular world of televised professional wrestling fills young hearts and minds with uncivility as they view broadcasts where behemoths rumble in arenas packed with people rooting for the bad guy to win. Musical artists like Marilyn Manson, himself an outcast who was bullied in school, appeals to the bullied and calls them to fight back through hate and fascist uprisings. The list goes on.