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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
Parents are responsible for raising their children. The kids shouldn't have been there in the first place. They shouldn't have been planning a mob or riot in a public park. They shouldn't have been behaving like animals. WHY were they behaving that way? When kids do bad things and get away with it, and the word comes out years later that they did those bad things, people say "oh well he was just a kid at the time." And those bad kids get appointed to the Supreme Court, or the Police Department. Or get elected.
You don't hear too much about how their parents should've taught them to respect women, respect themselves, respect civilization and humanity. You'll hear it from me though. I acted out plenty when I was a kid. But I never participated in a riot. My parents instilled too much self-respect and respect of other peoples' property and respect of the human race as a whole, to participate in a riot.
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I agree that parents may be responsible as are a host of other people or things. I also miss the old days but parents aren’t accountable when a crime is occurring. The individual committing the crime is accountable for their actions and the consequences that occur as a result.
The problem with blaming parents is the logical assumption that criminals all have bad parenting. The justice system in many instances is doing just that by lowering or eliminating sentences because criminals are a victim of upbringing be it parents and/or dysfunctional social environment. It creates its own environment where nearly everyone else including crime victims are accountable (including law enforcement) and have to accept the consequences with less than sincere apologies from society. Since consequences are being set low, so is the deterrent to committing crime. Motivation to commit crime typically moves counterpoint to consequences. Speeding or jaywalking vs drunk driving or assaults are typical good examples. Mob crimes are occurring more often now exactly because they make any accountability to individual criminals difficult even if a parent or social media platform is responsible.