Comment on Teen denies twice setting wire traps on bike path despite alleged video
ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 2 weeks agoThe “kid” is an adult.
Brains don’t stop developing until 20-something. He should know better, but he’s young enough to be correctable.
He would have fucked up multiple lives if not stopped. Where’s the compassion for his future victims?
But he hasn’t fucked up multiple lives, because he was thankfully caught. His ‘future victims’ don’t exist, so having compassion for them is a strictly emotional response that shouldn’t determine how to act here.
This man needs to be corrected. Long sentences don’t correct people, it increases recidivism and creates a higher risk of future criminality, especially when done at a relatively young age. Meaning you increase the chance of creating future victims, so where’s that compassion of yours now?
What is most effective and best for society usually doesn’t line up with an emotional response demanding harsh punishments.
MothmanDelorian@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Brains never stop developing. Most 10 year olds would know ths is dangerous.
What is best for society and what is best for those who are perpetrating these kinds of crimes might not align like you suggest. It is possible that what is best for the perpetrator and what is best for the larger society are entirely different.
Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 week ago
I mean, the best case scenario actually does align. It’s putting this guy somewhere that he can get both good mental health treatment and be prevented, physically, from reoffending in the meantime. It’s the Nordic justice model.