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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No person should be judged and condemned forever on the worst act of their lives when they act was committed when they were very young and thus their frontal lobe not fully developed. We know from neuroscience that the brains of teenagers are fundamentally different than the brains of adults. It is far more reprehensible for an fully functioning normal IQ adult to commit a murder than for a teenager to commit a murder.

Throwing people away at 15, 16, 17 just doesn't make sense. Of course there should be accountability, but teenagers have a far greater capacity for rehabilitation than do adult offenders, and we should give them the opportunity. Very few teenage offenders are psychopaths or sociopaths - and we can assess for those that are. The black and white thinking displayed in many of the comments on this board is chilling. You think you know that your teenager is incapable of heinous acts, but you don't in fact know this. Plenty of the teenagers in the juvenile justice system were raised by good parents who instilled good morals. But the human brain is what it is, and in young humans it is highly volatile, impulsive and lacks capacity to appreciate long term consequences. Add to that intoxicating substances and the recipe far too often leads to disaster.

Here is just one story of the capacity for rehabilitation; there are thousands more out there.

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/20/us/philadelphia-larry-miller-edward-white/index.html

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/01/21/nike-executive-larry-miller-thankful-family-of-man-he-killed-forgives-him.html[/quote]

No. This kid a) stole a car b) drove it recklessly c) purposefully hit a biker d) joked about it e) left the biker at the side of the road and f) POSTED IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA. I don’t think I’ve seen a better case for trying him as an adult and a very long sentence.

To the extent the teen somehow actually didn’t understand what he was doing, a stiff sentence is also important as a deterrent. Something needs to teach teens that it’s not a joke or a funny social media post to deliberately hurt people. [/quote]

All of this. Somehow the worst part of the video was when the person filming turned the camera and lingered on the body laying lifeless on the road. There was no “OMG what have I done!” moment. Just calmly enjoying & documenting the murder they just committed. That isn’t a “mistake” caused by youthful recklessness. Whether it’s technically sociopathy or psychopathy, these people are irredeemable. [/quote]

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