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Jan 12, 2009 8:16 PM

in response to:
PCWorld
Re: Judge Says Video Games "Not a Defense" for Parents' Murder
"It's all society's fault". "My mother didn't love me when I was a kid". "I got spanked for wetting the bed as an infant". "I got bullied in school"... God, I'm tired of the lame ass excuses people use, and defense lawyers try to sell to jurys, to try to get out of doing jail time when they, or their clients get caught.
I used to live next door to one of these budding psychopaths. He was a kid in his early teens, who broke into my apartment twice; was a compulsive liar; spliced his parents phone line into mine from the box outside so that he could call porn phone lines on my dime; he keyed my car, and dented it with an icepick several times because I had him arrested for breaking into my apartment; he basically destroyed the apartment that he and his parents were living in with a bb gun; he terrorized his family cat by chasing it through the apartment, shooting at it with the bb gun; then, when his parents finally got sick of me calling the police on him, they moved to another house, which he set on fire twice while his mother was inside. He was busted (and expelled) several times for selling drugs in school. Each time he would go to court, his parents would plead and cry to the judge, saying that he was abused as a kid, etc, blah blah blah. His defense lawyers would always tell the court that he was just a kid, and that being incarcerated wouldn't help him. The end result was that he never did any jail time; his mother eventually left their house because she had become so terrified of him, and he finally did the world a favor several years later by overdosing on drugs and killing himself. Had he not done that, I'm convinced he would have killed several other people during his lifetime.
I don't care what age a person is... If he or she willfully kills someone, they should be held fully responsible. No more "but it wasn't my fault" excuses.
There are three kinds of memory: Good, bad, and convenient.