Most of those states with “age of consent” under 18 are only if the other person is not more than 3 or 4 years older. They’re designed to protect against the ‘boyfriend turns 18 two weeks before the girlfriend’-type scenarios. Comparitively few states allow a 16 or 17 year old to bang, say, a 35 year old.
It’s not all that much of a serious crime, true. Eight years would be a bit much even for an adult for a crime that consists of nothing but speaking.
That aside, even if I accept that it is a serious crime, why should I accept that a legal child should be punished in the same manner as an adult?
Here’s the relevant statute, in case anyone was wondering. I don’t see what the point of (2) is - seems like that would be covered by simple assault.
criminal? he made a prank call.
By that logic anyone with a speeding ticket is a criminal. He was just some dumb kid who did something stupid.
Does every stupid thing kids do deserve a life destroying jail sentence?
Doing better then North Korea is something to brag about?
Let me get this straight. You’re claiming doing better then North Korea means we’re doing okay for running a society? :dubious:
Let’s be honest. You must be trolling.
It does not have anything to do with be better than North Korea. Just that North Korea in all likelihood has more prisoners. They probably beat us with just their political prisoners.
But all of that is irrelevant to which is a better society. From my perspective (and there is no objective standard on this point), a society having a high number of prisoners is almost completely irrelevant to whether it is a good society.
Making a terrorist threat = a felony
Speeding = an infraction (usually, depending on the jurisdiction, speed)
I get it now… you’re not a troll. You’re just completely fucking nuts.
Do you believe that people that commit serious crimes (like terrorism) should not be put in prison?
Both could result in loss of life.
hahaha you’re performance art.
A prank call is not terrorism. Atleast it isn’t if you want the word to have any meaning.
Well, this kid didn’t commit terrorism - even if he intended to carry out the threat, there’s no evidence suggesting that he had some sort of political goal.
In any case, of course I believe people who commit crimes ought to go to prison. Any sensible society, however, aims to prevent crimes, in addition to simply reacting to them. The fact we have more prisoners per capita than any other nation (except, perhaps, one) suggests that we aren’t doing a very good job. By your logic we’d be doing just fine if everyone was locked up (except, presumably, you).
If you take into account the fact that our standard of living is higher than that of almost any other state, it looks like we’re doing even worse.
There is no universal legal definition of terrorism. The people of the sovereign state of Texas have decided that this type of threat is a terroristic threat.
Locking people up has been shown to prevent crime. Perhaps we could do more to prevent crime, but the scum that commit horrible crimes need to be locked up or executed. We do have a cultural problem in this country with crime and violence, but it is not a problem that will be solved by the government. A big set in the right direction would be if all worthless pieces of shit men who do not take an active role in their children’s lives would start acting like men instead of worthless pieces of shit.
That is a complete distortion of my position. Most people has not been convicted of crime. I do not believe we would be doing fine if we locked up people who have not been convicted on a crime.
The problem is not the criminal justice system; it is a cultural problem.
Weren’t you the guy who wanted to take an electronics project on a plane?
That’d sure freak a heck of alot of people out. It could be a bomb! They’d be terrified, you’d terrorize them. Making you a terrorist.
You’ll be turning yourself in for 8 years of jail won’t you?
When was this? I do not remember wanting to do anything like, but maybe I just cannot remember.
Can you please cite the relevant statute that would make taking an “electronics project” on plane an act of terrorism? What level of intent does it require?
That was VCO3/TLDR. He got banned a couple months ago. I can see how you would confuse the two, though.
I can’t search. It was last year I think when I started lurking.
Some key words that might find it if someone wants to do a search:
electronics project lady knitting
oh! :smack:
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Are you joking? Of course people in prison can commit crimes. The people against whom their crimes are committed tend to be fellow prisoners, but they are crimes nonetheless.
I was thinking more along the lines of crimes that are counted in crime statistics. Are prison crimes counted in those? I honestly don’t know.