Unintended consequences

There was a story a few year ago on 60 Minutes about how they wanted to relocate elephants in Africa to areas with less humans. They relocated many but the biggest adult males were too big to move so they built these new communities of elephants without the oldest males. They had the best of intentions but the result was they had a bunch of young male elephants who had never had older adult males to keep them in check so these young elephants were incredible aggressive and fearless. Attacking villages and other animals without provocation. This was an unintended consequence.

There was a time when we had communities and the older adults helped keep the younger generations in check. Take the Facebook community as an example. Because like 1 in 50,000( just a guess) teachers abuse a student we ban all of them from friending students of Facebook. Imagine that now without these valuable members of the community assisting in keeping these youngsters in check, they have freer reign to bully and be aggressive. That would be an unintended consequence.

In Africa they solved the aggressive elephant issue by trucking in large male adults to restore the balance of power.

Usually when politicians interfere they do more harm than good. Leave the educating to the educators and the parents. Let the communites find their own natural balance.