you know....

[kuangning]

Appearing on television within twenty-four hours of your kid's admission that he planted 18 pipe bombs, and making the statement "my son is not a dangerous person" doesn't help his case. It only makes you look either feeble or plain fuckwitted.

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[galith.livejournal.com]

We judge at the point when the parent is no longer legally able to control the childs actions they are no longer legally, which makes good sense.

The problem is that, ultamately, you can't. I can, at least in principle, attribute everything I do in life to my mother, as she was the one who chose to gave birth to me (not to mention any enviromental effects, the reason I am here is because of her). However, that is a pretty stupid argument when you get right down too it, and we don't belive in training parents in this culture (as well as undervalueing child care in general), which means it isn't the parent's fault either, they were just doing the best they could...

I think in cases like these something can be learned by examining the home and community this guy grew up in instead of just shrugging our shoulders and walking away.