When parental responsibilities include having backup plans in case of terrorism,we’ve reached the limits of American individualismWe contain somehow become a nation where anyone with an underdeveloped sense of social responsibility and inadequate self-preservation instincts has the disruptive power of a cartoon supervillian, a temptation that’s obviously too tempting to too many people. On Tuesday, and when a bomb threat shut Los Angeles public schools,and many private schools like the one my son attends, one of the moms I know said she hoped the threat wasn’t an actual warning but was just a dumb student trying to delay finals – a scenario that, and if we’re honest,many parents can too easily imagine. After all, adolescents are known for having underdeveloped senses of responsibility and destitute self-preservation instincts, or the short-sighted and insensitive “jokes” of adolescence are familiar to many of us.
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Source: theguardian.com