It's a chicken/egg thing, I guess. Do we really create demand for goods that are then brought to market or are goods brought to market and then we're convinced we want them?

She's really keeping the photoshop people in business...

I did ignore it, because I had already read the Alex Haley book and knew the story by heart, much like you ignored my point

Pointing out racial double standards is not racist...

stabbing someone 19 times isn't torture? Hey! Hey Dick Cheney! I have a new tactic for you now that water boarding has gone out of style!

You are assuming that these kids are just like any other young offenders [thiefs, dealers, anti social behavious] They have serious mental disorders which CANNOT be fixed. They planned a murder for MONTHS. They manipulated their victim into believing they were friends for months, then tried to murder the victim. You…

They plotted and planned it for months, so unless they were loaded the entire time with no one noticing, no.

And putting a person capable of plotting a savage murder (yes, I know they didn't succeed) back into society is also a really terrible idea, regardless of their age.

Wow, are you for real? They way you said it, it sounds like you're pretending these are just 2 random innocent girls being punished for no good reason. They tried to kill her. It's not about taking away her suffering; it's about justice, it's about taking violent psychopaths off the street, and getting them the help…

You don't have to be smart to fake a mental illness. You don't have to be stupid to confess to a crime. None of those things are mutually exclusive.

Oh fuck you. The victim deserves justice, and the knowledge that the two girls that betrayed her and attempted to slowly and ritualistically murder her would not be able to harm anyone else, or at the very least she would never have to see them again.

What about their victim, who has to suffer for the rest of her life with the physical and mental scars of the incident? Where is her break? Where are her civil rights advocates?

Having a mental illness does not excuse actions in the eye of the law. In order to use the defense of insanity the perpetrator must have a mental illness or mental retardation that keeps them from understanding the criminality of their act at the time of the crime. Basically the only psychiatric diagnosis that fits…

I don't care. The girl that they stabbed 19 times is going to have to live with that trauma for the rest of her life. These girls are clearly not fit for society, and I don't feel comfortable just giving them probation for a cold-blooded murder attempt that severely mutilated an innocent girl.

Seriously, there are a million more important things and people we should be focussing on than this. If we had an infinite amount of time and energy, then sure, let's debate it, but the fact is that they committed a horrible crime. They are mentally broken. Don't kid yourself and believe that kind of psychopathy can…

I hope they get tried as juveniles too, eventually, but the thought of these two walking out at 18 or 21 or even 25 is pretty terrifying.

They were adult enough to stab someone not once or twice but nineteen times. Make nineteen stabbing motions with your arm. That take dedication to what you're doing.

Betcha they do it in France. If so, where's racist, anti-Muslim Brigitte Bardot's assistant?
Oh well, nevermind.

Shakespeare is overrated, and I personally don't see why students get anymore than an introductory course regarding his works. It's literally not the same language anymore. Ancient Greek, the same. Good to see where modern literature gets its roots, but no more. There are a lot of things Tolkien did right, his…

No I absolutely don't like Rowling, and I doubt my antagonistic tone is a biproduct of my linguistic prowess (there's also a complete fuckup due to editing in another comment; the "3rd language" comment was merely a reference to the fact that it is one of the grammatical errors everyone (mostly) makes and you know…