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...the way we were raised produced young people who valued and respected life, others' rights, and what was right and wrong...we'd been shown good examples either at home, school, or in the community...and the majority of adults we were around were responsible and moral...that environment didn't produce angels, (speaking for myself) but at least we knew what the rules are and that life was better if we followed them...today, I'd guess about half the youth get NONE OF THE ABOVE...and make choices with no foundation or true north to rely on...and that's sad...tragic...and often deadly...

...you guys are changin' my mind...my heart is sympathetic to the younguns...but my mind knows gradin' on the curve hurts everyone takin' the test...

...in layman's terms, they don't know what they don't know...and can't follow their actions through to the end result...in SOME cases...because their experience is so limited...in others, they're not naive at all...and use their age as a get out of jail free card...people and their thought patterns are not an exact science...we'd have to rely on judges to apply the law wisely...and that's a scary thought in itself...


...I'd seriously like to read your paper when you're finished...I've seen several situations where someone's foolish youth dragged them down as an adult...more than I think it should...but a fair solution seems way out there somewhere...

...that's about 7 years, isn't it...that'd be fair to someone trying to start again...you said it better than I did...a lot of young people would benefit if it could be brought into being...some would take it for granted and mess up again, but a lot of them wouldn't...we've got a lot of guys here who screwed up long ago...and have lived a lotta good life since then...maybe they could have a qualifier where they had to go X number of years without messing up then they'd drop the old stuff...

...no arguing that...a peeping tom can traumatize someone, as can many other crimes...I have seen MANY young idiots grow to be fine young men(often after a hitch in Uncle Sam's service) and I hate to see them saddled with all the garbage of their youthful poor choices...no danger of what I wished for ever happening, I'm sure...

...a lot of things we do when we're younger are more a result of mental turbidity than moral turpitude!!! this is because the content of our brains is often more brown than grey at that age...I would like to see the possibility of a clean slate at 21 for any crimes not involving harm to a human being...at both federal and state levels...I know it will never happen...but some of the worst at 18 are some of the best at 22...