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

[Zalatix]

97. Who cares what's meaningful to teens. We're supposed to act like adults.

Whatever happened to presenting a mature example? Mature people don't shoot up laptops to punish someone.

And taking stuff apart for research is not the same as shooting it up. Even burnout testing serves a useful purpose; shooting holes in it doesn't... unless you're testing a military combat-grade laptop. This guy shot up a laptop just to destroy it for no good reason. A total waste of natural resources, for what? To intimidate his kid? He coulda done better by giving it away.

And perhaps we could spend time educating people about how to recycle and rejuvenate dying equipment. But then that would take time out of oggling at Snookie or griping at Kardashian or fawning over Justin Bieber or whatever is trending today. We're so drunk on the yeehaw wastemongering kool-aid that we can't even fathom such an idea. The fact that our population doesn't recycle like that is a sign that we liberals have our work cut out for us. For the sake of our environment. I'd think that considering this would be second nature on a liberal forum.

I can't believe I'm debating the wastefulness of shooting up machines that can be rejuvenated or repurposed, much less shooting up perfectly working laptops on a liberal forum. The "we don't know if this was a real working laptop" is by far the flimsiest excuse one can come up with. You cannot be 110% sure it was a fried duplicate.

It is in no way presumptuous to judge someone who shoots a laptop and conveys the clear and unambiguous message that shooting perfectly operational laptops somehow teaches a kid a worthwhile lesson.

Exactly what forum am I posting to, anyway? Where'd the liberals go?