He’s clearly guilty of discharging, but it may not be found malicious, given the other verdicts.

My brother and I used to play a game called Splatterhouse on Turbografx-16. It was humorously horrifying, given the highly pixellated gore on screen.

Wouldn’t that be all Kraft Singles ever?

Apparently more than you do.

Then you don’t know much about religion.

And nothing heinous has ever been done without religion?

The faithful give over three times as much in charitable donations as the secular, and volunteer three to four times as often.

Plus, the religious have been persecuted for their beliefs as long as there had been human history, which is what you are proposing by suggesting that religion should be eliminated.

This is a great stance to take until the government forces you to regularly go through a life-threatening procedure to harvest your bone marrow so another person might live.

Even if it’s life, no life is allowed to commandeer another person’s body to survive. Period.

That’s not religion. That’s abusers using religion to control people. Which unfortunately the most vocal make sound like that’s all religion.

Weren’t they saying this back in the 90s?

I agree with school, just disagree with local community voting. They don’t own or rent homes, and therefore have near-zero consequence for the outcome.

I mean… that’s basically how it is now, excluding drinking. I’d rather they learn to vote before legally drinking.

Maybe it depends on where you live. Currently, our local politics is poorly attended. I shudder to think of the average local teen making community decisions. Among other things, we would end up with no police and my community is already stained for police presence (though some would consider that an advantage, I live too close to a high school to be comfy with that.) I’m guessing in more affluent areas, that might not be a big of a risk, but it definitely is here. Most teens here don’t traditionally work anyways.

Voting within their school, sure. But not at the community level.

Driving a car carries immediate physical consequences, something much easier to grasp than abstract consequences.

We don’t dump everything on them at once, because each step of adulthood and personal responsibility is hard.

It’s not whataboutism. I’m guessing you’ve never raised a teen?

I’m personally surprised by how important it has been to my child to chop up learning adulthood into small pieces. It’s a lot to take on all at once, and functioning adults take their knowledge for granted.

That’s not how learning works. A graduated system allows people to gradually take on responsibility. Going from a total child to full adult is too much of a shock. It’s bad enough as is, with kids having a hard time “adulting.”

Those two years make a HUGE difference in cognitive ability.

https://myhealth.alberta.ca/Health/Pages/conditions.aspx.

Because working with direct supervision is a far cry from making decisions that affect everyone.

I have a 16yo, bless her heart. No way is she ready to vote. I’d far rather not tax children than give them access to running anything connected to law.

Part of the reason 18yos are “ready” to vote is they ostensibly have a couple years of working under their belt. 16yo have no idea how disconnected from reality they really are. Give them a couple more years to operate under responsibilities, first.