No matter how mean this kid is....as a teen...he likely never considered the absolute destructive asininity of this action beforehand.
Does he feel like crap now? He can’t take it back. He meeds to grow up for his gellow citizens from this point or we house him in jail for 80 years and pay for that too.
If God can make penicillin from moldy bread, he can make something out of you....Cascius Clay
Probably not. The root of these crimes is a sociopathic lack of empathy. It would go something like:
Q: How would you feel if someone did that to you?
A: But nobody did that to me.
It would be impossible to visualize the shoe being on the other foot; the abstract thought process required doesn't exist for the sociopath.
“If God can make penicillin from moldy bread, he can make something out of you..”
The development of resistance phenomena in bacteria as a consequence of the ingestion of subtherapeutic levels of antibiotics has been reported in several cases in farm animals (1, 34).
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC123731/