After reading qtns2di4's post, and the accompanying thread, I did sincerely find a problem with what he said, even if he wasn't serious about it. Accordingly, I pinged him at the top of the board and asked him to explain if he was serious or not. If he was serious, I will have a problem with him about it.

As for Neut's comment, I had previously read it, and in this case I do think you read a bit too much into it. He didn't wish death or bad things upon the human members of the Baby Boomer generation; he basically criticized the type of society that resulted from being under the influence of the great majority of them, and said he is glad they wouldn't be influencing it forever. Each of them, just like each of us, are going to pass away over the natural course of time. He didn't suggest anything about hastening their demise.

As it stands, while he could be said to have made a generalization about all Baby Boomers, what he said about the society that resulted from the attitudes which the majority of them held is on stronger ground. I think that Jasmine (now Willem) told him what needed to be said: As bad as so many of the Baby Boomers were, not all of them were like that, and there are certainly many Generation Xers and Millennials who have equal degrees of negative qualities. Personally, I have basic agreements with both of them: 1) Not all Baby Boomers had/have the full array of negative traits attributed to them; 2) However, the generation they beget was indeed bad, because when many of them came of age in the early 1980s, that's when the previous liberal decade and a half came unraveled due to so many of them giving up their commitment to fight for change, and instead becoming more interested in assimilating into the system as it was. Clearly, there were not a sufficient number of Baby Boomers who retained those commitments to stop the conservative takeover of government that, among many other negative things, allowed new types of moral panic to consume the nation.

And not to be nitpicky, but is there such a word as "shat"? I've heard it before, but I'm not sure if it's actually a word.