Condolences

Thanks. I'm stealing it.

It's a party all right

I think the other Christians may have other issues that need resolving first if they believe that this is something that should be stopped or hindered.

Isn't that the point of the calling someone a "minor", though? Decision making capacity isn't all there yet, higher chance of the stupid, believing you can fly, that sort of thing.

The article said he was aiming for the wall behind the mom. Maybe he thought he was some kind of ace combat special forces or something because of the VR headset stuff.

You're missing the point. All I'm saying is that the punishment should fit the crime.

The kid is a kid. Not innocent, but not deserving of the full weight of adult punishment.

Worse yet, could the child be an undiagnosed ND? You and I don't know. What if he is?

I agree, appropriate action should be taken. Just what exactly falls into that bucket though?

You can't put an 11 year old in jail for man slaughter (I would call it that, not murder). Juvi? I really am not qualified enough to know my ass from a hole in the ground here.

What do you think?

A bad seed? Trim the bad ones for the sake of the future?

Would you put the neurodiverse into a gas chamber for being a burden on society, too?

My lord, you need some help.

This is a kid, it's an accident, a tragic one. He's going to need a psychiatrist his entire life. The punishment is he will live with it.

I mean technically, if it's a tube, the mouth is part of the basic physics brain process. As in, if you don't eat it, it won't be added to the calories. The decision to eat is a brain process, too.

We've got drugs that play with that decision.

I'm not arguing that though. I totally agree that any loss of life is wrong.

And the use of child in your context is different from the use of child in the context of this discussion.

I'm more interested right now in the obvious agenda.

I'm not saying that child death's aren't up or that we shouldn't do more to protect them but when citing data this way, I get the very strong feeling that it's being made to look worse than it is on purpose. The majority are from suicides and murder fatalities are extreme in the 18-19 year old bracket.

Why on earth does the metric include 18 and 19 year olds as children if not for making something look worse.

The dictionary defines a child as a person between birth and puberty. Or not having attained the age of legal majority.

It's similar to when a 10 year old gets shot by the police, and then the news conference later has the police referring the 10 year old victim as "a young man" instead of "the child". Does it not feel like they're trying to achieve something?

I'm okay with skeptical and verifying but he doesn't challenge all his guests equally. I'm not saying he should be perfect, but there are some really far out ideas that need more questioning before I'm personally satisfied.