Re: Stoning death boys found guilty

Cynic wrote:
On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:23:25 +0100, "ABC"
<simonbray@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

The boys, now aged between 12 and 14, were found guilty of
manslaughter and violent disorder. They will be sentenced on 19
October.
After the sentences were read out, the defendants, some of them in
tears, clung to their parents in the dock. "

At the age these so-called kids were at, they knew right from wrong
(the same as the Thompson and Venables case). They knew that thowing
rocks, stones and bits of wood would cause a great deal of harm and
even death.

I doubt that they knew that it would lead to death. Such a
consequence was extremely unlikely.

There are degrees of knowing "right from wrong".

Do you believe that you are no more responsible today than you were at
the age of 10 years old? Do you claim that there was nothing stupid
that you did at 10 years of age that you would not dream of doing
today?

There are plenty of things I would never do again , but that doesn't mean
that even at that age I didn't know there were plenty of things that were
very clearly wrong
--
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk www.ebayfaq.co.uk


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