S&F
Thank you for posting this absurdity.
It truly shows that we're living in a world of double standards and hypocrisy.
SMH
I'm ashamed to have brought children into this world, I fear for what they're going to have to live through once they get older. It's not getting any better.

not many opinions here.

This teens life is ruined because of a mistake. She is guilty but is also only 16 and can't even vote. Had she purposefully killed a person, she should be charged as an adult, if she was committing a felony at the time, she should be charged as an adult, but she was committing a misdemeanor offence, that is committed by probably 60% of teens and at least 25% of adults.

She should be charged as a minor.



On the other hand, you have a Doctor who was Drunk, Texting, driving, and a hit and run but gets a misdemeanor dwi out of it. He says he thought he hit an animal, but name one person with a BMW that wouldn't stop immediately after hitting the animal, just to see the damage, especially damage that dented the whole right front side in.

I think it mainly shows the difference that competent legal counsel, and the ability to afford it makes. In my wilder pre-military youth, I saw this first hand amongst my friends, though with much less serious offenses. The people I know who had enough money to afford a decent lawyer were treated drastically different for the same offenses than those who were forced to use a public defender. By drastically different, I mean years worth of probation and days as opposed to weeks or months incarcerated.

Justice may be blind, but it uses those scales to weigh your gold.

Though I do know of one case where an aquaintance of mine acted as his own attorney in a jury trial and won. He asked each of the state's witnesses "Did you see me shoot a gun at you?". They all answered no and the jury acquitted him.

The doctor clearly had to know the result of his actions. He's an "educated" man, holds a position of "professional responsibility", and whatever his other circumstances, those things should have put nails in his coffin.

Btw, I deliberately put those words in quotes because I don't feel that education makes you in any way a better person and in fact may make you worse, as is perhaps demonstrated here, and I don't feel that doctors are either professional or responsible, again as demonstrated here.

The young girl also knew that it was a stupid thing to do but she is a kid. Things happen in our youth and we learn from them. That's what being a kid is about.

As the fine doctor has illustrated though, sometimes all the other stuff doesn't teach us a thing.

Putting this girl in prison and robbing her of her future serves no one.

Putting the doctor in prison and stripping him of his license to drive and to practice medicine (having clearly demonstrated a gross lack of judgment and moral fortitude, as well as an inability to gauge his own abilities) would serve society much, much more. When you have a lot to lose and you muck it up, you should bloody well lose it.

Our society is kinda screwed up when we're expected to be morally and ethically sound, to be responsible for ourselves and others, but those rights and responsibilities are specifically denied until someone decides that they really do apply in this case but not in others...IT'S REALLY KIND OF SCHIZOPHRENIC, is it not? How can you know? And the younger you are, the less you get said experience because people are always deciding things for you.

We need to sort ourselves out. If you're in an already underprivileged situation, it seems like the laws are always falling against you. If you're already in a privileged position, the law always works for you. What sort of example is that from the upper crust? Why should it be this way? They already have too much and they get to buy more still. Sick, sick world.