Goq: While they may think they are hurting their parents, teachers, friends or others, the OTD are only hurting themselves. While they think they are the center of attention, the friends and family ignore them resulting in suicide and other antisocial behavior. I am not a social worker but I think early intervention might solve these problems at a lower cost to society.
Sparkly: While legally once you are born a Jew you are always a Jew. People who act like they are a ” Goy” are called a goy. What I mean by taking learning seriously is that more and more MO are learning the Daf Yomi. The only MO I deal with are those who come to the Mincha Minyan, which is why I think they are taking learning and davening more seriously, so this may not be indicative of MO as a whole.