Zeal Ex Nihilo
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Originally posted by Devil King
"children" get raped in prison, because they don't realize they're being raped as adults. much less are children raped by adults in a prison system that doesn't place them there because they commit the crime as an adult crime. so there are two perspectives on teh result; children are tried as adults because their crime is so aweful that only an adult could have comitted it, or a child is so terribe that he/she could only carry that behavior over to adulthood. so, how "adult" was the crime committed by a child, when the same crime is commited by a large number of un-educated, unexposed children who are declassified by the growth of pubic hair, by their age? at what point does the growth of pubic hair and the parent's desire for them not to have it become the descrening factor?
I'm with Backfire. (Drunk post?) Here's how I'm interpreting your post:
1. Children, despite being underage, are placed in an adult prison and thus raped by adults. Since children are less likely to be raped by adults in a non-adult prison, they should not be placed into adult prisons. (The "don't realize they're being raped as adults" was very black sarcasm, yes?)
2. There are two main points-of-view on these types of cases. A: The child's crime was so awful that he or she should be tried as an adult because, in a sense, only an adult could have committed such a horrific crime. B: The child is likely to continue exhibiting such behavior in the future because the child is so corrupted.
3. Let's think about this: we try these kids as adults but there are many children who are committing these same crimes. This does not indicate that these children have the mental capacity of adults to commit these crimes, but rather it indicates that these crimes ought not to automatically categorize the children as "adults" (in terms of being tried).
4. How can we truly classify these children as adults or children when they are barely pubescent?
Other than that, you're going to have to clarify.