At least you admit you don't like thinking of what you advocate here. Especially when it turns out you have failed to practice the same zero tolerance policy you preach now. You did exactly the opposite. You didn't report a criminal you knew of personally, but helped hide the crimes and you defend those to this day. There's a word for that: hypocrite.
If the system is 'unfairly' punishing you for a minor crime, then that is going to cause resentment.
If you left the toilet seat up in the bathroom and your girlfriend slapped you across the face for it, you're not going to remember to put the seat down, you're going to get pissed at your girlfriend for reacting the way she did.
Now, if you show up drunk to an important family dinner, she takes you outside, and slaps you across the face, initially you might feel some anger toward her, but ultimately, you're going to realize you probably deserved it.
You'd have an easier time garnering sympathy from the first example as opposed to the second.
Not a perfect example, but something anyone should be able to wrap their head around.
On to your second point, who is the victim of this kid trying to sell his CDs in the mall exactly? Was he accosting customers the same way those cellphone providers do at kiosk in malls, or was he not paying his dollar bills to the mall, so he wasn't allowed to sell it there? In this situation, I have a hard time not seeing a kid getting man handled and smacked with a felony as the victim.
And what do we say? Well, that's the law of the land. Can't sell CDs in the mall, kiddo because that's the rule/law. He's also not going to understand the rule, hell, most people wouldn't. Your kid isn't even allowed to sell lemonade out in front of their house without a permit, but it's not like the cops are going to roll up three times, grab him/her by the wrist, and check to see if they have any outstanding warrants. Try explaining that to a child, who hasn't hit that jaded point of 'them's the rules' just yet, and they are going to have a hard time grasping it.
But, as you go through life, and see the consequences for your actions, showing up late for class and not getting credit, or clocking out early for work every day and losing your job, you'll quickly realize that the only way to function in society is to play by the ridiculous rule set, some that make sense and others that really don't. You don't need an authority figure to discipline you, life'll take care of it, you'll continue to develop, and if you don't make the cut, you'll become a Republican and spend the rest of your life blaming the illegals for all your problems.
Kidding on that last bit.
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His aunt was reacting emotionally to seeing her nephew being manhandled for a minor offense. You could clearly see she as distraught. She had a perfectly rational irrational maternal reaction to what she was witnessing. I guess you don't have them paternal, protect your offspring genes that most people do.
She also apparently couldn't understand this, especially not to teach him why he had been removed three times as you have fully cemented in on "His brain isn't fully developed and he can't possibly understand being asked to leave for doing something he wasn't supposed to multiple times". I wonder why she didn't do anything until the third strike.
But okay. Tell me what other things people with "not fully developed minds" can do since they can't understand it. Can he steal? Can he punch people in the mall? I mean, he can't understand.
Correct. If you think finding out who owns what % stock in whichever the private prison corporations are named, is faster than making 3 posts, then by all means, you go ahead and prove that implication. You can have the same choice, do that or forfeit. Sorry, to make it same situation for you; I don't care if you do it or not. Now, it's equal. Do it or quit.
No, but at least one study shows the are more prone to. This isn't about letting them get away with it, it's about the punishment fitting the crime. How dense are you? Don't try to change the subject.
Except it is. If anyone gets the cops called on them for refusing to leave multiple times for selling things on private property, that's not surprising.
But here come the same child psychology experts that said this shit in the thread about the five kids who mugged and killed a person. So, I've already been informed that we can't punish kids for anything. And if they are too stupid to understand, how can they possibly learn since they can't understand?
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No, please tell me what other crimes we can't punish kids for. We clearly can't teach them because their underdeveloped brains can't handle the concept of being asked to leave.
Cognitive thought isn’t developed until 12.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition
Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as attention, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.Formal operational stage - Adolescence and Adulthood (12 years and on) - Logical use of symbols related to abstract concepts; Acquires flexibility in thinking as well as the capacities for abstract thinking and mental hypothesis testing; can consider possible alternatives in complex reasoning and problem solving.
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Campaign contributions.
Total contributions split between parties.
Folks getting rich.
"PLN managing editor Alex Friedmann, who owns a small amount of CCA and GEO stock as an activist investor, which allows him to attend the companies’ annual shareholder meetings and file shareholder resolutions, requested and obtained a copy of GEO’s shareholder list at the company’s last annual meeting on April 29, 2015. [See: PLN, June 2015, p.56].
However, Florida law prohibits shareholders from selling or “otherwise distribut[ing]” any information or records obtained from the company for reasons that are not related to the proper purpose specified when requesting the records, with a fine of $5,000 applicable for violations of that provision. As a result, GEO Group’s shareholder list cannot be distributed without violating Florida law and incurring civil penalties."
So while we can't see exactly who, we can follow the money.