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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] It is of course an insanely complicated problem. Can we really consider six year old children to be responsible for their own actions? But then, who is? Or does it matter? After all, no amount of justice can bring that girl back. The problem, as I see it, is that we ideally want our justice system to carry out two chief aims. The first is to protect the rest of us from the criminal element, whether through incarceration, execution, or rehabilitation. The second is to somehow punish the criminal, or "teach them a lesson", as it were. The first is rather easy in this case to carry out. Isolate the boy from those he might do harm to. The second is where it all gets tangled. Ask ten different people and you'll get ten different answers. As a vastly exaggerated example, there will be some who might claim that the boy's problem comes from living in a society where women and men are allowed to intermingle as equals. To others, the problem is that the child wore mixed fibers and was allowed to eat meat from animals with cloven hoofs. I'm not putting force either as sound or even likely arguments, but merely as a worst case example to show how deep the conflict can run. Ultimately, I think we would all agree that the goal is to prevent this boy from ever repeating such an act. But as to what path should be taken to get there... *shrug* [/QB][/QUOTE]
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