[*BCM*] Motorist gets slap on the wrist for killing a cyclist

[Ian Westcott]

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I see plenty of 30-somethings that drive around while talking on the  
cell phone.  Sure, they're not downloading ringtones, but maybe  
that's just because they're too old to figure out how. :-P

   -Ian Westcott

    developer + information technology manager
    the barbarian group
    338 newbury street, 3rd floor
    boston, ma  02115-2700
    ianw at barbariangroup.com
    617-424-8887



On Dec 1, 2006, at 2:22 PM, Rachel Elizabeth Dillon wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:11:12AM -0800, turtle wrote:
>> She's a teenager, she has little to no sense of her place in the  
>> world.
>> Teenagers, for the most part, just don't have the brain  
>> development to
>> be capable of seeing the world through anything but their own  
>> eyes, and
>> haven't yet learned to see beyond their limited life of raging  
>> hormones
>> and the need to figure out what the heck they are supposed to do  
>> to be
>> popular in their friend's eyes.  That's why they send teenagers  
>> off to
>> war, because they will do pretty much anything to feel important, and
>> can't think very much.
>>
>> I don't mean to say that teenagers are bad or anything, because it's
>> just a part of growing up, just like the terrible twos.  We all  
>> have to
>> go through it sometime before we can make it into a mature mindset,
>> where we honestly care about other people.  To expect teens to behave
>> maturely is just delusional.  But we give them drivers' licenses and
>> cars and guns nonetheless.  What does that say about us?
>
> It says that we encourage young people to behave irresponsibly by
> holding them to lower standards and letting them get away with said
> irresponsibilities? Five hundred years ago, teenagers behaved maturely
> and worked jobs just fine; it's nurture, not nature. If we allow  
> people
> to continue being children older and older, most of them will happily
> continue. Then, when things like this happen, you say that "to expect
> teens to behave maturely is just delusional." Like, seriously?
>
> Hormonal or not, limited or not, the vast majority of teenagers are  
> not
> _killing people with cars._ Maybe they're not behaving as maturely as
> me, and maybe I'm not behaving as maturely as you, and maybe you're  
> not
> as mature as an octagenarian, but we're all able to exist  
> peacefully in
> society and deal with the responsibilities of our shared  
> environment. That
> this girl has failed is damning of her and her upbringing, not of
> everyone in her age bracket.
>
> -r.
>
>
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