give me strength
my arguments are not excuses for their behaviour. yes, they broke the law and it was wrong.
what i am trying to do is explain how these young people end up with these patterns of behaviour.
by the way: yes, i do fly professionally for a living
if we follow a tabloid agenda and just "string 'em up" then that will solve absolutely nothing. it will not improve our society and it will not deter them, or others, from behaviour like that. we need to understand the root causes and address them
we need to ask ourselves "how do these people end up doing things like that?". the answer of "they are bad, we should string em up, it's the bleeding heart liberals fault etc" is a lazy knee jerk simplified answer which solves absolutely nothing.
look at our prison population (highest in europe per capita). sending a 15 year old to prison just starts them off on a path of crime and they will get stuck in the endless cycle of the criminal justice system. hence, more crime, more victims, more cost to the state.