contestgamer said:
SuperNova said:
I know, that's what I was trying to say with the '48 stabwounds' thing. Basically if you stab someone to stop them from hurting you, that's not neccessarily with intent to kill. Unless there was eregeous force used it would be hard to prove intent to kill in that situation as well. Seeing that the injured burglar in this case apparently got as far as out on the street before he collapsed, the elderly man was probably not too intent on actually killing him. That's how it read to me at least.
But yeah, everything you said about the arrest makes sense. Thanks!
Edit: Also, jeez this thread escalated quickly. Accoring to Contestgamer, instead of being a productive taxpaying member of society I should be an invalid, cared for by my family right now, that is if I survived the public and improptu dismemberment of my arms at age three and five respectively.
Yes, I've shoplifted before. The one at age three was an honest mistake, since I thought my mom had payed for the 3$ heart shaped plastic sunglasses in kid size that I had put on and not taken off when we walked out of the store. The one at age five was the concious theft of a 1$ bubblegum that made me feel so bad that I never did anything of the like again. And that includes succumbing to peer pressure, for the most part.
The people at the tax office were very happy when I came to register my business btw. They like people who actively try to pay taxes.
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You were too young for those consequences but at 16 and above there should be a different standard
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You decided to ignore the moral of the story though, and that is that even though people make mistakes and always will, with the right education and help along the way, a lot of them will be able turn themselves around into valuable members of society.
That's not going to happen if you chop their hands off for petty theft, be it at age five or age sixteen. Most societies have realized that a working taxpayer is more valuable than a cripple, a man wasting away in prison or a dead man. That is why contry in particular has a prison system that is targeted towards rehabilitation and protection rather than punishment.
People who are and will remain a danger to society, will remain incarcerated, but everyone else should be helped to reintegrate and become reformed.
