Comments:Road accidents, suicide, pregnancy and violence among top killers of world's youth

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Really was not expecting pregnancy to be a main cause of death. Bawolff ☺☻ 18:29, 13 September 2009 (UTC)

If you put yourself into the perspective of today's youth, you have to spend the first 13 years of your life at school learning stuff that mostly benefits no one, another few years at college, then you enter the world with a mountain of debt and a lifetime of work.

If you put some effort into it and make something of yourself with a career then you probably still won't be able to afford a house and even if you can, there probably won't be anyone willing to give you a mortgage. If you can afford to buy a car, well done but you probably won't be able to afford petrol to put in it.

When you're too old to work, you won't be able to afford to retire, your kids won't be in a position to look after you (they'll be in the same boat) and your pension will more likely than not disappear in a puff of smoke when you come to withdraw it. You can rest when you're dead... maybe. On the other hand, you can have a council house, that you could never afford yourself and which gets bigger as you have more and more kids and a free wage that also grows with your family for simply sitting on your arse. So why not retire now?

There's a lot of doom and gloom going around these days, too much, so what are kids expected to do? Torture their livers, have unprotected sex, get pregnant, get STDs, take their frustration out on passersby in random acts of violence and drive dangerously, that's what. It's pretty much that, kill yourself or develop a zen like attitude of altruistic selflessness towards life, expecting no reward for playing your part in society and the economy. It's no wonder at all that this stuff is happening. The real question is what incentive is there for a young person to not drop out of the bottom of society and what can we do about it.... I don't know.

You may think that I have the wrong attitude here. Maybe I expect too much out of life? I say: it's not me. From the cradle, we have MTV telling us that we can all be rock stars and get our kicks for free and teachers telling us that if we learn our ABCs and get letters after our names then we'll all get great jobs with big houses and shiny new cars. Neither approach is remotely realistic and most lower and middle class folk will eventually have that epiphany where we realise that no matter how hard we try, it's not quite going to work out like we were told. You can hardly blame kids for opting out of life.

One thing that I think definitely won't help is making poison, firearms and alcohol less accessible as suggested in the article. Preventing suicidal people from ending their pain isn't going to magically make them happy people.Shane.Bell (talk) 13:38, 14 September 2009 (UTC)

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bakwas —117.197.178.251 (talk) 10:25, 7 July 2010 (UTC)

I removed this as gibberish; another user restored and noted it had some meaning (without elaborating further). I've resorted to Googling the word and it appears to be Punjabi-origin slang that has crept into other languages. I'm noting this here so that no other contributor makes a similar mistake years down the line and tries again to remove it. BRS ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 15:18, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

Well, you could have asked, BRS. "Bakwas" is transliteration of a Hindi word which means "non-sense".
103.254.128.86 (talk) 16:20, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

In order to ask, one would first need to be able to differentiate it from a keysmash; as noted, had I not left this comment, another user (or even myself again) would be liable to make the same edit if they stumbled across this in four or five years time. BRS ^{(Talk) (Contribs)} 16:30, 10 January 2019 (UTC)

IP lookup helps.
103.254.128.86 (talk) 17:55, 10 January 2019 (UTC)