On 7/15/2003 4:27 AM, Eric Takabayashi wrote:

> Scott Reynolds <sar@gol.com> wrote in message news:<bet3e1$7bc$1@newsflood.tokyo.att.ne.jp>...

>>Wow! This is the first time I've seen you come down so strongly on the 
>>"nurture" side of the nature-nurture debate, Eric. 
> 
> Then you haven't been reading for years. And I don't believe that
> people are "born" so screwed up in the head that they don't know such
> a thing is not right.

But you now seem to believe that whether a person grows up to be a 
lawbreaker or a law-abiding person depends on how they were brought up. 
In that case, how can people be blamed for committing crimes? It's their 
parents' fault, right?

> Harsh punishment is for when people make the choices to screw up when
> all else fails. People would get so much help that there would be no
> excuse for failure. You'd know this if you read more closely instead
> of only picking out the punishment parts as "EricWorld". That still
> does not mean there is any excuse right now for what happened in this
> case, or what the boy is accused of doing at least three times
> previously this year.

Why is there no excuse if, according to what you said earlier, he is not 
the one responsible for his crimes?

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Scott Reynolds                                      sar@gol.com