Teen convicted of killing baby gets life in prison

[tblue37]

161. I believe the point he was making is that

such a reference to "that culture" is a prejudicial characterization--with overtones of racism. "That culture" is a pathological culture created by poverty and oppression.

Yes, people like him who choose to commit heinous crimes must be held responsible and punished, as he has been and will be, but by the time this man became the sort of person who could coldly shoot a baby in the face, his "choices" were to a significant degree constrained by what he had become, and what he became was largely determined by the conditions of the life he was born into.

But he was not born a remorseless babykilling POS. He was born an innocent baby into an environment that NO child should be born into, an environment that exists only because greed and heartlessness are pervasive pathologies in our society, and we lack the social and political will to protect children and their families from being shaped by their own suffering in such an environment.

He was not born a monster but was made monstrous by the influences of his environment.

Yes, many people in similar circumstances do not become evil monsters capable of committing such an act, but many people DO, and we KNOW that such an environment produces quite a lot of people like that. Yet as a society, we are willing to let children be born into such an environment so that some other equally remorseless criminals can become so rich and powerful that they have nothing left to do with their time and money but to purchase the government in order to shape rhe rest of society in their own twisted, sociopathic image.

This young man murdered that baby because the guy has no conscience and no empathy. He wants what he wants when he wants it, andd he does not see other people, not even innocent babies, as human beings but as objects or obstacles to his getting what he wants. And he destroys obstacles that prevent him from getting what he wants when he wants it.

A lot of rich, powerful sociopaths also do not see innocent babies as human beings they should empathize with, which us why they on't care that so many babies born into such an environment live lives of desperate poverty, abuse, and hopelessness.

As a child's brain develops, it is shaped by its environment. Many sociopaths--in fact most, with very few exceptions caused by accidental glitches during fetal development--are created by environmental influences, and the environment that produced this monster was created by a society that allows its powerful sociopaths to completely run the show.

We don't punish the rich and powerful people whose choices essentially destroy the lives of innocent babies born into such environments, but besides destroying young men like this one by turning them into monsters, those rich and powerful POSs are also responsible for creating conditions that cause the deaths of innumerable babies even before they have a chance to "choose" to grow up to become sociopathic monsters.

I'd love to see those rich, powerful monsters also sentenced to life without the possibility of parole.

On edit: I spent 30 minutes tapping thiis reply out on my Nook tablet.