worst possible way. absolutely. he just need reconciliation. by the way, it s not easy issue to treat, either. i had a young man who had perpetrated once in college an act of violence against women. he immediately pulled back from it and said i have a problem. i need to get treatment. i said good you want treatment. how long we treat it for? ten years to get through one episode of domestic violence. it takes a long time. it s really a very comprehensive and intense process. it is trauma based. there s so much stuff that went on usually. the problem is that we don t have any moral authority that we can refer to to judge this kind of behavior so we turn to therapy. because that s the only consensus we can all get in this society. because we all have different value systems depending on different religious or other backgrounds. so i think that s why therapy becomes this catch all. to cover all sin. you re right. absolutely right. different terminology for the same thing.
these individuals calculated their assault, harassed the victim with the photos and then took steps to cover up the evidence. there was no remorse here. these were not the actions of a child, but of a person whose value systems were so skewed, that they will do this again. i want to take serious steps to see that this doesn t happen to another one of our children. audrie s law is still in the research phase. i want to thank you yall for allowing us to tell her story and make changes to make our community and schools once again safe. the mother there of audrie pott talking to reporters in northern california. let s bring in our expert barbara greenberg, just for one last question before we go. it is very clear and you hear this from the attorney and also from the mother of audrie pott,
their value systems. you and i talked about that earlier. let s consider maybe the flip side. is there a silver lining in any of this for consumers? well, obviously black friday now not what it was. but i have got to tell you that the discounts we re going to see after christmas this year are going to be dramatic. will they pay us to take it away? almost. we re seeing 75%. not unusual at all to get 75% discounts. here are the companies that we are seeing already saying big sales to come. best buy, wal-mart, target, toys r us. across the board you are seeing heavy discounting. bad news for retailers because this is where they make their money in the year. for consumers, maybe consumers who were on a budget this year, this is an opportunity. harris: wow. interesting. always good to see you. gerri willis? good to see you. thanks very much from the fox business network. people in the south picking up the pieces after the largest christmas tornado outbreak on record swept thro
it was a time not as old as the time we are in. harris, i agree this is mostly stupid, but if you are a hard core social conservative or hard core aclu liberal, your value systems might be different. i can see that. that is something you want to match up. but again, you are getting together on a first date to match people who put you together. i don t think the heavy talk comes up. you want your value system and i can see that too. joe, i agree that it is great what you talked about how it is good for people to be around others who don t agree with them. i feel like a lot of people don t want to feel that. i agree with that and that speaks to the dating website culture where people don t want to get to know you and explore you as a person. they want to bullet point
impulse we see in the laments of the nastiness of a presidential campaign and the huffing and puffing and inadequacy of iran diplomacy. in each case the process may be messy, ugly, tortuous, but it s almost always better than the all turn in a i have it. conflict is part of the human condition. there are limited resources, different interests, cultures, tribes, value systems with different conceptions of the good, vastly different priorities and first principles. democracy is a system we ve come up with to resolve those inevitable conflicts, but there is no such thing as a placid equilibrium where they disappear or are only articulated in the gentlist of fashions. that is the point. conflict is the underlying conflict of human society. the question is what we do with it. it s only a slight exaggeration to say we either have people killing each other in the streets like dogs or we have people running attack ads against each other. buyer okay kra si, the back and forth of campaign ads ar