Teen convicted of killing baby gets life in prison

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152. Perspectives anyone?

A 17 year old does this heinous act, he is tried, found guilty and sentenced. The unasked question is, why?

Has anyone among these comments thought about mental disease or brain disorder? No, not as an excuse but as a simple answer to the question of why he did this. Has anyone really thought about what it means to be diseased in the mind or how many people are mentally or socially warped that never get themselves in such a position as life without parole? I agree with those who think this kid should be locked up interminably, but the reason this kid has been convicted is not that he is extraordinarily inhuman, but that he was stupid.

There are people walking the streets who would do such things or maybe have done similar acts of incivility who have never been caught and probably never will be. They are your next door neighbor, or at least someone's. What this kid did, the act itself, is not unusual among humans. It's a disease, or a brain disorder, or maybe a social disorder that is shared by many who you would never suspect to be such. They are not in prison, they are not convicted or in the light of our media cults. They are just sick minded humans that either have a certain amount of personal control or are smart enough to not get caught. They wouldn't need money or drugs or anything tangible, they would do this for nothing.

So when you make your hateful, angry and self righteous comments which may be well deserved, separating his acts from your own by stating how he is some sort of animal, don't forget that he is not the worst offender on the block, just the most visible. You may want to put that into perspective and smoke it for a while. Humans are more complicated than what you may think.