While the argument for letting the guy walk after he's admitted to a crime is that we're all going to just be really upset about it but oh well, and forget it the next day? Fine, when he fails as a politician he can work at your church youth group.
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He was 12 years old, and I think not charging 12-year-old kids criminally is a generally good practice by the State of KS
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Yep. Kids need behavioural interventions, not jail. The system may have failed here, as he clearly continues to exhibit similar behaviour, but not charging a 12 year old with a crime isn’t a bad thing.
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Moreover his offense from when he was 14, which I think is morally just as disturbing as his other offense, is the kind of thing that's notoriously difficult to charge criminally at all Theoretically it falls under harassment but the bar for criminal charges there is really high
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And I'm not sure you really want to lower that bar - do you want to make it easier for Donald Trump to accuse people who reply "Fuck you" to every one of his tweets of being stalkers who should go to prison
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I think it's the kind of thing where even if you're not a full on prison abolitionist the "carceral solution" is really hard to argue for
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I know I have very strong opinions on who's a creepy stalker online and who's just calling people out on their shit and I know people who have just as strong opinions that are totally wrong and I'm not confident I would get put in charge of deciding who goes to jail and not them
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Honestly so much of this just seems besides the point. It doesn’t matter who should have done what, or whose parents failed at what. He should not, just 5 years later, be running for office. Esp. when he’s exhibited similar behaviour towards the opposing campaign manager
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I mean the people defending him are propping up this horrible strawman "Oh you think a 12-year-old boy should've been thrown in prison huh" and apparently now there's a guy who actually does believe that so I have to argue against him too
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That’s fair too. I mean, I love arguing on the internet for fun, even when it’s irrelevant.
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I have to emphasize again I have no problem with a 19-year-old trying to move on from shit he did in middle school and live a normal life Running for office at the age of 19 is not living a normal life
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I think that’s a great way of putting it.
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