To: Harmless Teddy Bear
When you commit first degree murder fully knowing that what you are doing is wrong...There is your line. Oh well then...you are in favor of making it even MORE arbitrary.
Most 7 year olds understand that murder is wrong. But with cartoons and video games...maybe they don't understand that shooting someone might actually KILL them. Same can be said for even some 14 year olds. Who will make the decision then...A psychologist, a judge, YOU?
We have made the age of majority 18. That is the law in the land. We simply must accept that children are viewed differently by LAW.
405 posted on
03/01/2005 8:54:39 AM PST by
colorcountry
(All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. ...Rudyard Kipling)
To: colorcountry
We have made the age of majority 18. That is the law in the land. We simply must accept that children are viewed differently by LAW."We" have done no such thing. That's the whole point.
410 posted on
03/01/2005 8:56:02 AM PST by
JCEccles
(If Jimmy Carter were a country, he'd be Canada.)
To: colorcountry
We have made the age of majority 18. That is the law in the land. We simply must accept that children are viewed differently by LAW At 17 a Judge can grant you full rights if you have the mental capacity. At 18 you can serve in military but cannot drink alcohol.
Therefore minors who have the mental capacity of an 18 year old should be executed.
424 posted on
03/01/2005 9:00:15 AM PST by
M 91 u2 K
(Kahane was Right!)
To: colorcountry
Oh well then...you are in favor of making it even MORE arbitrary. Nothing arbitrary about it. It is simple and straightforward.
A psychologist, a judge,
That is their job. They do it all the time. That is why we have different degrees of murder.
430 posted on
03/01/2005 9:02:31 AM PST by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(No one knows the shape of the future or where it will take us. We know only the way is paved in pain)
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