11-04-2010, 11:59 PM
(11-04-2010, 06:40 PM)ShadowHM Wrote: I understand that from your viewpoint, he made his choice when he arranged to be born into that gawdawful family. However, most of the rest of us believe that minors have limited moral responsibility and no legal responsibility for their actions. Their parents do.
At age 5, certainly. At 15 you have to take a large share of the responsibility for your own actions. We can't treat teenagers as babies who don't have any responsibilities, only to dump them on their own at 18 and expect them to do the right thing.