Should they fry him or hug him?

[tamarin]

http://blogs.phillyburbs.com/blog.php?p=11523&cat=8

Personally, I think he should be used for organ transplants but I'm a little more of a prick than most.

 

[hermanntrude]

why on earth would you fry him or kill him any way? he's been a bad man but he hasnt done anything which touches upon a death sentence. He's a little sod but he IS young. You got to try at least.

 

[darkbeaver]

A kid like that's got a future in the corporate scheme of things, he'd make a fine CEO no doubt. It's nice to see youth take an active interest in thier education.:laughing7:

 

[tamarin]

He should be made an example of. Given we've got over 6 billion on the planet now one less won't make any difference. Plus it would be educational. Can't fault education!

 

[darkbeaver]

He should be made an example of. Given we've got over 6 billion on the planet now one less won't make any difference. Plus it would be educational. Can't fault education!

A positive or negative example? If he we're taken off the street and educated he'd make good material for someone. He's activly involved in life already at a young age, he's ambitious and ruthless
he exploits and plans above his weight, what does a kid have to do to get some recognition these days, sit in a class room and vegetate into a perfect little turnip.:smile:

 

[DurkaDurka]

He's a messed up kid, that's a given, I don't think they should make an example of him though.

I am curious about what kind of parents this kid has, surely they could be brought up on some charges related to his behaviour.

 

[westmanguy]

I think the kid should be brought to adult court.

Thats how I would make an example of him.

He knows darn well the concequences of his actions, and what is illegal.

That could be easily proven, send him to adult court!

 

[hermanntrude]

He should be made an example of. Given we've got over 6 billion on the planet now one less won't make any difference. Plus it would be educational. Can't fault education!

Are you really suggesting a 13 year old kid should be executed (killed) for such offenses as theft and burglary and intimidation?

save the seals but kill the children?

 

[darkbeaver]

I think the kid should be brought to adult court.

Thats how I would make an example of him.

He knows darn well the concequences of his actions, and what is illegal.

That could be easily proven, send him to adult court!

If I had my way West you'd be before the beak, frog walked in by this kid.:smile:

 

[karrie]

at least he's not sitting in front of the tv all day long letting his brain and body rot like so many young kids. He's got initiative! lol.

 

[Sparrow]

He needs psych treatment then sent to someone who has a strong character, authoritative with a good heart, and who has been there.

 

[#juan]

There is a possibility that this bad kid will end up a bad adult but giving up on him is not the answer. If someone hasn't yet suggested it, he should be put on a farm and have his a$$ worked off till he is eighteen. This might give him some values he obviously doesn't have now. A little guidance from a strong, just individual, wouldn't hurt either.

 

[s243a]

There is a possibility that this bad kid will end up a bad adult but giving up on him is not the answer. If someone hasn't yet suggested it, he should be put on a farm and have his a$$ worked off till he is eighteen. This might give him some values he obviously doesn't have now. A little guidance from a strong, just individual, wouldn't hurt either.

That is a really good idea.

 

[tamarin]

How much is owed to someone who's already played ruthlessly fast and loose with the rules meant to safeguard the members of his community? Maybe he's a bad seed. I like the concept.

 

[darkbeaver]

Rules are meant to be tested and broken by wild seed, maybe the kid is wild and not bad, but then the wild is looked on as bad by the tamed.:smile:

 

[tamarin]

The lad's in need of a lesson. It's time to loose some fear in his eyes.

 

[darkbeaver]

Ya a judicious application of positively applied fear wouldn't hurt.

 

[hermanntrude]

as opposed to a simple roasting as some were suggesting.

 

[darkbeaver]

We're trying to save the lad.

 

[Pangloss]

Let's keep in mind that this kid is thirteen years old. I don't know about the rest of you, but between 13 and say, 20 years old, I became an entirely different person. Cast your mind back to when you were thirteen - how smart were you really? How introspective? How many of the emotional/introspective tools you now have did you have then?

I'm reading a lot here about old values of retribution - what about the equally old value of redemption? Make the child (for that's what he is) pay for what he has done - pay back the people he has harmed.

At the same time he gets to know the victims of his crimes, the victims would get to know him. Yes that's important - it is far too easy to only ever see the bad guy as some amorphous monster; to see him as human, as a child - to be forced to acknowledge his humanity at the same time that the victim declares theirs. . .well something more than justice can come from that.

Pangloss