Red Mosquito

This is something us normies will never understand.

Whitey McTeeth wrote:This is something us normies will never understand.

i'm still not convinced this is even real.

spike wrote:

Whitey McTeeth wrote:This is something us normies will never understand.

i'm still not convinced this is even real.

Anything the psychologists can make $$$ testifying about, writing papers and giving interviews about, and treating is a real thing. We swearz.


But, I do think this is real and that kid's lack of consequences and wealth exacerbated his normal teenage behavior. I just don't think that is in any way, shape, or form an excuse for keeping him out of jail.

broken iris wrote:But, I do think this is real and that kid's lack of consequences and wealth exacerbated his normal teenage behavior. I just don't think that is in any way, shape, or form an excuse for keeping him out of jail.

Why do we conceptualize jail as corrective punishment? It doesn't seem to work very well at that. This individual belongs in jail because he has demonstrated a substantial risk to society. Unless he receives effective psychiatric care or ages out of it, he should probably stay in jail.

It's not corrective punishment for just the offender, but demonstrative prevention for anyone else thinking of doing the same thing.

cutuphalfdead wrote:It's not corrective punishment for just the offender, but demonstrative prevention for anyone else thinking of doing the same thing.

This, yo. Jail is suppose to be a deterrent as much as it is punishment. Obviously not in this case though.

cutuphalfdead wrote:It's not corrective punishment for just the offender, but demonstrative prevention for anyone else thinking of doing the same thing.

houses across the land are shivering in their boots

The deterrent effect doesn't seem to be substantial either. Nor does it seem particularly moral.

simple schoolboy wrote:The deterrent effect doesn't seem to be substantial either. Nor does it seem particularly moral.

2013 N&D can't handle this thought, friend.

This event sure shit all over the scales of justice, that's for sure.