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Originally Posted by cannon7
He was a kid. As a father of a developmentally challenged child, I think its sick that society is pulling out pitchforks for something a 14 year old did. Do you remember being 14? Deny it all you want, but you did stupid things at 14. Some of the comments here are disgusting. I guarantee there are posters here who went through juvenile hall (or whatever the Canadian equivalent is), learned from it and are well-adjusted adults today. We can't afford an 18 year old the same opportunity? Sad.
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Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger
Nobody said this is "kids being kids" you're making that up.
As for rational posters, I was pretty clear in my post that the people not being rational should start. Why is that so hard for people to accept?
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That's long form generalizing of exactly "kids being kids" as it implies we have all done stupid things, as if the pattern of this person's behavior is equivalent to things we have all done. I don't believe that is true, but I do believe it diminishes this horrific behaviour in the vein of "we've all done stupid things". I'm not making anything up.
Perhaps I misinterpreted the target of your OP, but it wasn't as specific as you claim it to be and I ran with a follow-up. I think we agree that there are some clear overreactions in the thread.