Capital Punishment – Canada, Let’s Not Go There.

People have cuddly ideals when they do not have to deal directly with a problem.

I think public humiliation for all is a good start! Rich kid, Poor kid or generally messed up young adult; get their names out there and open the door to media for full disclosure and allow public ridicule and damnation.

If parents caught a view of the population they live in they may have an interest in having their offspring join the system.

Why should a native receive a reduced sentence or a white kid be let off light because of a child hood experience? Not in my world! No matter how these kids grew up; the person they harmed or killed remains damaged for life or dead and gone.

There is no such thing as training a person into resentment or anything else for what they did! You can however teach that same person to play the game with the same amount of effort and claim victory in the press when the person lives 6 months without hurting someone else!

Our system sucks! Two parents working leaves the door open for unexplainable guilt for not giving the kid the nebulous best. These parents compensate for the kids by excusing them from everything, defending them at school and play; always someone else should be incorporated into the blame.

The result is these kids grow up know no causes and effects. They have no reasonable scale of right or wrong. They have no real concepts of effort and rewards. Of achievement and pride.

These coddled kids are you next hard core criminals as they leap through life from one high to the next, from one excitement to the next and never finding fulfillment.

These are the kids of our society that are trained delinquents; trained by the best of intentions. Our system has to anticipate, trap and straighten these young people up while they can be changed.

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I make no inference to “Bad Parents” it is our social structure and more people are inclined into it than mange it differently.

I agree with most of what you say.

Parents working worry a lot about robbing their kids of some nebulous, unnamed advantage. I call it a guilt, totally undeserved which they are responding to knowingly or not.

In this mesh of work and home the kids life has to have some structure with limits and penalties built into it. It is awkward and at times impossible to set limits when one is not there to guide.

It is near impossible to hand out a penalty when the coaching was lacking.

Nevertheless it is my thought the limit and the penalty are more important than the free ride and endless excuses that lead to so many bored delinquency problems which are most apparent in vandalism.

I don’t have all the answers I have come through adventure and misadventure to recognize the mechanics of our folly. I think just recognizing this much will make a great and positive outcome to the families effected.

I told my kids (all professionals now) “Do what ever you want to do but, take a moment to know what you are doing!”

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