VIRII said:
Reading through this thread I see a lot of posts that seem to say :
Throwing a 360 out of the window is disgraceful behaviour, a father should know better.
My response would be to go "ballistic".
Doesn't anyone see the irony of that?
At the end of the day if you live in my house you abide by my rules. if I tell you to turn the 360 off and pull your weight around the house you'll do it. If not then get your own place. I left home at 19 partly because I could not live by my parents rules.
If you don't like it don't live there.
There's no irony in that at all. I suspect that if anyone knowingly and deliberately damaged something belonging to you, you'd be none too happy about it. Where does it say that if a parent destroys something that a)Theres nothing wrong with that because its just your parents, b)You as the victim have to be all sweet and nice about it just because its a parent.
Wrecking someones stuff just because you arent getting your own way is nothing short of childish. Something you'd expect from a 5 year old (I know that we all have those moments to some degree but most of us wont go around breaking stuff). There are much better ways of getting your point across, even if its as severe as to simply ask the "Kid" to move out if the situation has got to a stage where they can no longer live under the same roof. I know i'd still have respected my father for coming straight out with that, i'd hold no respect for someone who goes around breaking stuff to try to force the same effect.
All this is going to possibly achieve is -
Force the "kid" out of the family home
If the "Kid" is already depressed, force a deeper depression. Both by the action of the father and loss of the 360 (Many depressives lose themselves into gaming etc as an escape from the real world and loss of that escape can be pretty devistating). Im not saying this is the case, but just giving an example.
Hatred of the father (possibly to an extent where they no longer talk or have contact)
Retribution (ie hostage PC
)
People that agree with what the father has done think that this is a good thing ?