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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: one_less who wrote (66594)	11/15/2002 5:41:25 PM
From: The Philosopher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

I will continue to drop in and discuss what ever I find I wouldn't want it any other way. But certain topics you will have to discuss, if you choose to discuss them, without moi. As to the two boys you mentioned earlier, I happened to see a bit of their sentencing hearing, including the judge reading parts of their confessions. Were the sentences appropriate? I don't think any sentences could be appropriate for these boys. On the one hand, they slaughted a father who was nothing but good to them. I can see no reason why we should expect children to do such an act ever to be safe members of society. On the other hand, they were clearly seduced (both physically in one case and emotionally in both cases) and led into an act which on their own they almost certainly would never have contemplated. In this respect, I think of them in a way like the Nazi youth who were seduced into believing the most absurd things and actingin utterly horrible ways, yet were able to recover in the end and become model citizens. How can we really punish children for being the victims of a scheming and remorseless man? I cannot see that there exists in this case such a thing as a correct degree of punishment.