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Originally Posted by Libertine
The same goes for almost all children that commit serious crimes, though - either they don't realize what they did, or they were created by their environment.
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There is a very serious difference at play here, imo.
On one hand, a kid that steals his dads gun, and shoots someone, or a kid that runs off from school during hours, gets drunk, and gets in a car crash, or in general, a kid acting
out of his own volition,
outside the house/school/controlled environment.
Then, the merit I can see, and the reason to suspect they will commit crimes later in life I see too.
However, on this other hand we have here, is a kid that did what he saw his mother do, for years, and what he saw a good chunk of all the other adults in his life do, for years.
You can't expect there's some sort of innate, automatic, right-and-wrong sense in a 12 year old. Or 10 year old, when the stuff started. He just does what he sees done.
I don't see that there's anything wrong with that. There's something wrong with a kid living in that environment, but the kid is not guilty of anything.