Originally Posted by
allegro
I see but didn't fully comprehend because your passion overshadowed any logic. And one case in his history does not provide enough evidence of what you are suggesting. I'm sorry, but it doesn't. We haven't seen his shrink records, his psych evaluations (if any), he was 19, we don't know the situation. It was a terrible crime, no doubt, but not all of these cases fall into the "beyond rehabilitation" category. And you can't simply lock all of these types up somewhere, the "system" can't support that, that kind of "system" does not exist without violating human rights. Even if these people do not seem human to you, they still have rights. There is a very thin line, there, between punishment and barbarism. And our taxpaying system simply cannot afford to support locking up first-time offenders and throwing away the keys. It costs a lot of money that the system simply does not have. Yes, it appears that your punishment for these crimes in the U.K. seem pretty lenient compared to ours, and I'm not sure why, other than perhaps an archaic standard of the lack of child's rights, in general, that needs to be changed, probably.