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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-05-15 06:57 pm

[ SECRET POST #3054 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3054 ⌋

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10. [SPOILERS for Forever]
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Re: Boston Bomber Sentenced to Death

(Anonymous) 2015-05-16 12:01 am (UTC)(link)
If it were for a lesser crime, I might agree with you (such as drunk driving), but this guy planned to bomb a fucking marathon and killed an 8 year old.

I'm sorry, but it's insulting to every 19 year old in the country to pretend that they don't understand right from wrong at this level.

Re: Boston Bomber Sentenced to Death

(Anonymous) 2015-05-16 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
No, gut reactions to the crime don't change the psychology. Yes, he did something horrible that your average, American, university educated teenager would be ethically opposed to. But no matter to what, a 19-year-old is still way more vulnerable to negative influence, way more impulsive, and way less able to connect consequence to action than someone with a fully developed brain. (and for the record, it's not like this action happened independent of any of that, with his radicalized brother who was acting as the primary male adult figure in his life).

An adolescent's brain just isn't an adult brain, and makes adolescents a lot more prone to certain types of crimes that they probably wouldn't have done if they were adults. That just can't be discounted, no matter how many other upstanding teenagers there are in the world.