TomG2 wrote:
I am sure he looked at that mangled hand before doing it again. I could not look in the mirror if I ruined some kid's life because he grabbed something off the seat of my truck. That does NOT mean that I believe in coddling criminals. Kids make mistakes. I did, but I am not perfect.
I thought I was the only one on this forum that made mistakes when I was a kid and was not perfect.
Young people sometimes do rash/dumb things. Wrecking the rest of their life because of it is not going to make their lives or anybody elses better. In fact, it would make it worse when they could not get a decent job and had to spend they rest of their lives begging or stealing.