I think it's a matter of rights and responsibilities -- the kids don't have the rights, so they shouldn't bear the responsibilities, period.
I think it's a matter of rights and responsibilities -- the kids don't have the rights, so they shouldn't bear the responsibilities, period.
Most states allow sexual relations between adults and minors if they are within 2 or so years of each other in age.Quote by: samsara15
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I think that a youth who commits a crime should not be tried as an adult. I think so for various reasons. The one I feel most strongly about is because their are many things that would influence a youth that would'nt effect an adult. These things include peer presure and television. The classic line is blame it on t.v., the reality is that there is much truth behind this.
Oh, yes, blame it on television; blame it on society; blame it on everything except the criminal child who CHOOSES to commit crimes. Give me a break!
While I don't think children should be housed in prisons with adults, and while I don't think they should be punished in the same manner as adults are punished, I do think they should be held just as accountable for their choices as adults.
If they are responsible for their actions as adults, they also deserve the same rights as adults. Every single one of them.
(formerly G.Adams)
"You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" ~ Ayn Rand
Children are the property of their parents.
The parents are 100% responsible for the actions of the children until they're 18 unless they go to the court and request to legally divorce themselves as parents of the children.
Maybe under US law, though I doubt it, but in the UK it is illegal for anyone to possess as property another human being. Parents are simply their legal guardians, with a responsibillity to care for the child until 16 or the child is taken on by someone else as a guardian, or the child runs away.
(formerly G.Adams)
"You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" ~ Ayn Rand
Why do they deserve the rights of adults simply because they, like adults, are responsible for their actions?
Which is, of course, ridiculous. What does having the right to vote have to do with not shooting someone? Exactly how is being able to legally drink going to stop someone from poisoning their parents?
Come on...
There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide the world that cannot be achieved more rationally through entirely secular means.
The state must maintain consistency. If the state says that children are not reponsible beings, and therefore cannot drink, buy firearms etc then it must also accept that they are not reponsible beings before the law.
(formerly G.Adams)
"You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" ~ Ayn Rand
Of course it is ridiculous, that is my point...
(formerly G.Adams)
"You can avoid reality but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" ~ Ayn Rand
Just because they are not legally able to take some actions does not mean they should not be responsible for the actions that they do take. There are some crimes which, no matter what the age of the criminal, need to be prosecuted seriously.
There is nothing demonstrably true that religion can provide the world that cannot be achieved more rationally through entirely secular means.
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