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My only objection in all this is that kids who commit crimes are not punished enough. That's it, plain and simple, and it goes right down to small children who behave badly I'm afraid. When I was a kid if I acted out too much I got spanked. My parents weren't trying to abuse me, they were trying to instill a sense of right and wrong and that there would be serious consequences to my actions. And they succeeded.
Nowadays there seems to be very little in the way of real consequences for kids though. Parents are unwilling to administer any real discipline, and when a few do they are all too often reported to authorities and harshly reprimanded for it. Our society has become, to put it bluntly, fucked in the proverbial head.
Kids grow up having a sense they can get away with anything, and they do. While I am thankful for the few who do have respect for others I find it amazing that so many others simply have zero fear of reprisal. They tag your garage with zig-zaggy bullshit with their spraypaint, they jam a screwdriver in your car doorlocks (and cause $1000 damage), they lip off at you as if they have 100% impunity, and more. All because we as a society have become so afraid of damaging the little darlings that we are no longer capable of disciplining them in any capacity it seems.
I'm sorry but when a kid commits murder or is a repeat offender of serious crimes I really don't care that they are underage. They should go away for a long time. Maybe not forever, but a LONG time. None of this 1-4 years until they are 18 bullshit. Serve the first part of their sentence in youth detention, then the rest in real prison once they are of age.
My sympathy over their "tender age" has run out.
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