I haven't seen the show, but it sounds like it's just another form of garbage television for mindless minds to watch in order to make them feel good about themselves and bad about society.

DVC has a good point: this Chris Hansen dude is in it for the fame as much as he is for the common health of society. It's a sad state of affairs when we live in a society that needs to pay for water and make a spectacle out of putting harmful people behind bars. And that's what it is. Propagandising, phony spectacle. Hooray hooray!

That said, this thread was posted, it seems, with the typical intention of not only putting forth an opinion, but doing so with a hyperbolic, teenage need to be shouted at and pissed on. And why? Because DVC knew fine well that even if his opinion was a valid one that others would agree with, the argument that came with it, which lay behind it, was a vacant, empty one, an embodiment of the "OMGLOLZ" generation. Teenagers always rebel, of course, but only morons do it with such shallow haste. It's like me making a thread saying The Godfather is rubbish, and then getting a hard-on once people ask why.

The thread-starting post, in all its vacant attention-seeking, should have at least been in the Post Whoring thread. But of course, DVC knew fine well that he'd ruffle the right feathers and that he'd get replies like "and why is that," " " and all that other shallow garbage.