That's my point as well. I definitely knew right from wrong and I think I was pretty empathetic towards my fellow man. I would not intentionally hurt anyone. However, I'm not sure that I truly grasped the reality of the 'finality' of death until I was over 18. Probably closer to my early 20s. I think it takes living some life for a few years as a young adult to comprehend that. I mean 'feeling' and comprehending the finality of death and the true pain felt by family members of a lost one and comprehending the whole effect on life in general and those a death effects. Also, thinking about 10 years in prison and truly understanding 10 years in prison is not the same. I think a lot of things are just concepts to teens but not something they can imagine and truly realize what the effect would be. I knew the pain my family and I felt when my father died when I was younger than a teen, but that is not the same I don't think. Not all teens have experienced the loss of a loved one either and they still see the world as revolving around them.



>>As I said to Perry, I'm not saying these kids shouldn't be punished. I'm just seeing a bigger tragedy than only the death of one man.
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>>Uhm, no, Tamar, the largest tragedy is the death of an innocent man.
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>I didn't mean that these kids were a bigger tragedy. I meant that the whole situation was a bigger tragedy than just Taylor's death.
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>> This is one reason that I'm opposed to trying kids as adults (and I recently read that this country is beginning to come to its sense on this one).
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>>This WASN'T a kid. This was an ADULT act and should be treated as such.
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>Were you an adult at 17? I sure wasn't.
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>Tamar