That's not true.Not in my experience anyway. The world has always been violent, but unless you experience this violence as it happens ( even via the news media ) it does not register with you. A lot of young people will hear the odd story about violence from history but it does not register as much as that picture in the local paper of the old lady beaten half to death.
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Pasanonic 's been known to cause insanity in laboratory mice,
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