Let's make this clear: responding to your teenage child's words with violence is NOT OKAY.

[Zalatix]

93. I'll judge, yes indeed.

Coming from someone who at one time in the past would have had to scrape months of income together to afford a laptop WITHOUT paying other bills, I can judge the wasteful destruction of perfectly working electronics. This laptop was not dying or in need of killing - and while one can speculate that it wasn't really THE working laptop he was talking about, it's glorifying the destruction of a perfectly working piece of equipment. It's the message he's sending out that's wrong and wasteful.

As for dying appliances, few people ever think, "Hey, we could repurpose that". Take a dying washing machine and remove the drum, hook it up to a bicycle, and you've taken several steps to creating a new pedal-powered washing machine. Naw, instead it's simpler and more manly to shoot it full of holes. Yeehaw.