<font color=8fbc8f>Read people, read!</font>

"I would think maybe this kid is trying something that he thinks fun to act out without having the emotional and psychological maturity to think the thing through before he acts on it," California clinical psychologist Edward Bischof told the Chronicle.

Just because one person says it, doesn't necessarily make it so. I'm not debating the fact that tv is influential to young kids. But in this case, I wouldn't point the blame entirely on the media. I think a lot of fault has to do with the parents in this scenario. Parents are supposed to lay the moral foundations upon their kids, teach them sensibility and help them understand what they see.

I've read this article numerous times and I don't see any adjectives that would even remotely explain the income level of the family. I don't see how it is 'quite clear' that he comes from a poor family. In fact, the actual environment of the family is barely touched upon.

And even if he is illegal, the tax money Americans would have to shell out for this one boy's funeral would be insignificant.

<font color=8fbc8f>That's my point. But oh my, when the gamer basher was all about Grand Theft, the PC gaming world was in full assault.

Knowing what I personally know about Webster,TX. I can correlate to why he did not get a Christmas present, but his younger brother got one.</font>

::raises hand:: I want to know when Saddam Hussein became an okay person to imitate.

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Investigators learned Sergio was upset because his father, Celso Sontay, got his little brother a Christmas present but didn't get Sergio one.

Leads me to believe (although not know for certain) that he came from a poor family. To have one Christmas present... :(

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Investigators learned Sergio was upset because his father, Celso Sontay, got his little brother a Christmas present but didn't get Sergio one.

Leads me to believe (although not know for certain) that he came from a poor family. To have one Christmas present... :( </font>[/QUOTE]To me that's more of an indication of poor child-parental relations. The way I interpreted it, it made it seem like the father deliberately didn't but his son a Christmas present, but for a non-monetary reason. More like an act out of spite or resentment for his child.

But either way, that is still speculative. I still don't think it is "quite clear" that the family is poor. I still don't even see how one starts to think about those kind of things with a situation like this.

Update:

THREE KIDS DIE IN SADDAM-LIKE HANGINGS
Saturday, January 06, 2007 - FreeMarketNews.com

Sergio Pelico, a 10-year-old boy from Webster, Texas, hanged himself from a bunk bed last Sunday. On that same day, a 9-year-old Pakistani boy, Mubashar Ali, hanged himself, with help from his 10-year-old sister. And three days later, in the suburbs of Kolkata, India, 15-year-old Moon Moon Karmarkar hanged herself from a ceiling fan. -ABC News

(http://www.freemarketnews.com/WorldNews.asp?nid=30785)

I'm suprised that any of the generation who grew up watching Western movies and TV shows survived to adulthood. We are so strongly influenced and dominated emotionally by what we see that we should all have hung ourselves.

I probably averaged seeing 3 hangings (TV/movie) a week from age 6-12. It's just a testament to my indominable will superior intellect and emotional maturity that I survived.

NOTE: There is no HTML code for sarcasm but you can just use your imagination.

Nothing good could have come out of a kid with the name Moon Moon anyway, she would have probably grown up becoming a notorious sex offender or some such.

Or a cult leader. Either way.