@CaptainHarley @lynfromnm
Well my point was to present a kid who is vicious and uses and manipulates people as it suits him to gain power and success. This kid is also well like by some/lot of their peers because he engage in all the activities (drugs, alcohol, violence) that some “misguided” adolescents would engage in.
versus
a kid who is intelligent, caring, understanding etc..good moral values. perhaps average or slightly above average in academics. Who will be successful in life but not as successful as the vicious kid. But he has chances of being fooled and harmed by the vicious ones.
As a parent would you prefer viciousness and super smartness or ethical and smart? I have seen a whole bunch of parents with the first choice. If their kids can get away with it they won’t criticize their children. Some would I guess, but there are just so many troublesome kids in highschool and college that i dont understand what is going on.