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I feel like this conversation has come up before prisonermonkeys, and you were one of the few people who agreed with me.
This whole event is a tragedy. Not just the fact that it happened, but the fact that it's possible for people to grow up (not even fully) to do such a thing. When these people were born they had no desire to harm anyone, but somehow during the course of their life they developed some ideas that allowed them to commit this terrible crime.
Anger is expected, you can't control your emotions after all, but I find that the most important thing to focus on is preventing this from happening again, by trying to understand what was going through their minds and how they developed the mentality they have.
Killing them will alleviate our anger and make us feel better, but it does nothing to solve the overall problem which is that perfectly neutral children can become killers and we have very little understanding of how. Maybe there will never be a world where no one grows up to be criminals, but that's the goal I think we should be aiming for most fervently.
If there were a way to get this kid to realize what he did was wrong, that would satisfy me a million times more than just killing him.
This whole event is a tragedy. Not just the fact that it happened, but the fact that it's possible for people to grow up (not even fully) to do such a thing. When these people were born they had no desire to harm anyone, but somehow during the course of their life they developed some ideas that allowed them to commit this terrible crime.
Anger is expected, you can't control your emotions after all, but I find that the most important thing to focus on is preventing this from happening again, by trying to understand what was going through their minds and how they developed the mentality they have.
Killing them will alleviate our anger and make us feel better, but it does nothing to solve the overall problem which is that perfectly neutral children can become killers and we have very little understanding of how. Maybe there will never be a world where no one grows up to be criminals, but that's the goal I think we should be aiming for most fervently.
If there were a way to get this kid to realize what he did was wrong, that would satisfy me a million times more than just killing him.