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Why is it even possible to “charge [someone] as an adult”. If you have the concept of “adult” and “child”, and a line in between them, how can the crime dictate
by mkelly 5y ago
Why is it even possible to “charge [someone] as an adult”. If you have the concept of “adult” and “child”, and a line in between them, how can the crime dictate someone’s mental maturity?
(Of course the answer is, I’m sure, is selective enforcement. So they can lock up black kids and let white kids off the hook.)
- rscoots 5y agoDo you actually know anything about the judge, jury, and DA in this case? Or are you content to drive-by smear them using the same prejudice youre supposedly protesting here? So are you "sure"? Please tell us more.
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- Griffinsauce 5y agoMore valuable discussion can be had by engaging with the first point. Neither of you are likely to affect each other's viewpoint on the latter.
- rscoots 5y agoWhy leave the 2nd 'point' go unchallenged because the poster might be stubborn? Seems like a weird standard for a public conversation. I grant some may find it a less "valuable" one though.
- Aerroon 5y agoBecause it's possible to game a system with rigid lines. Gangs could hire kids below the age cut off to do some of the work.
- tomerv 5y agoThat sounds like a serious crime by the gang leaders, and less so by the hired kids.
- Aerroon 5y agoSo? Does an AK or pistol pointed in your face by a 14 year old somehow make it less deadly than if he were older? https://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/violence-in-rio-de-janeiro-child-soldiers-in-the-drug-wars-a-469510.html https://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/violence-in-rio... Stories like this aren't too uncommon. The ability to charge kids as adults can potentially prevent people from trying to side step the rules.
- tomerv 5y agoIt's not an effective detterent becsuse the kid holding the weapon doesn't understand the consequences. Edit: if you give a child the keys to your car and they hit someone with it, who is at fault?
- Aerroon 5y agoDo you really think that a 14 year old is incapable of understanding that hurting someone is wrong? And that they don't understand that there will be consequences to their actions? Because I find it hard to believe. >Edit: if you give a child the keys to your car and they hit someone with it, who is at fault? Obviously both - you and the child.