I am flabbergasted by the types of behaviors that are deliberately taught to children. I think before I had always assumed that habitual bad behavior was a product of neglect, failure to correct, or else just bad example. I never would have imagined that many children are deliberately and explicitly taught to behave badly. It's not always that the adults in their lives failed to teach a lesson, it is sometimes that the adults chose to teach the wrong lesson.

Arg...I am too frustrated to construct this line of thought so that it makes any sense. Suffice it to say that sometimes people suck, and in new and ever surprising ways.