Comments on: Arguing with 15 year old me–The Young Offender’s Act

By: CommieCowboy

Sun, 22 Jul 2012 19:32:42 +0000

Maybe I’m too much of a bleeding heart, but I think it’s a travesty to expect children and teenagers to suffer adult consequences for their actions when we’re not willing to allow them to consume alcohol, smoke a cigarette, buy a lottery ticket, vote in an election, run for political office, or sign a contract. Even if I were for the death penalty, for instance, I’d be mortified of the idea of executing an American before age 21.

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By: ncdoyle

Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:20:13 +0000

It would be more disappointing if your views haven’t evolve since you were 15. I know I was a lot more black-and-white about crime and punishment back in the day, and I think that comes from lacking an understanding of the nuances of justice (that has developed as time goes on). Being surrounded by relatively affluent people and getting news from media with a simplistic narrative also doesn’t help with developing empathy.

On a side note, it’s interesting your OCR (I assume) rendered “fi” as “?”.

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