sociopaths.

I don't think there is such thing as a sociopath, maybe under some circumstances or for short period of time but I believe that at one point or another the person has some kind of understanding of what is socially considered right and wrong. I think that the people we call sociopaths choose to ignore those feelings, and if one chooses to ignore them and participate is henious, unforgiveable acts that damage or end human life, then yes, they should be locked up. I don't believe in forever, and I think that everyone can change. No matter what you've done, I think people are capable of changing.
I don't think, that a juvenile should ever get life in prison, because I believe everything is circumstantial. I don't think there is any driving force in anyone that just makes them want to kill people, something outside of that person has to fuel their hatred and anger to get them to the point of murder (which would be the only reason I would consider putting a juvenile in prison for life). Once you take away that outside factor, with time and reasoning, I feel like that individual would be able to reenter society. I also do not agree with the death penalty whatsoever for anyone. I don't think any human has any right to decide if someone lives or dies.
I think rehabilitation is good, and upon reentering society the juvenile or any other individual needs to be surrounded by other people that share the same vaules and goals as them as to make it easier for them to stay on track.

Prisons/Absolutes/Opinions

Before watching the Stanford Prison Experiment, I didn't have any absolutes. I said that everything was circumstantial and while I still do mostly believe that, I also do believe there are some absolutes. There may be things that are completely wrong no matter what the circumstances, but I don't think they're any specific acts in particular. I think that if when you look at the situation, whatever was done was done purely out of spite, and evil, and hatred then that should result in more severe punishment. I don't believe that acts themselves should be punishable, I think that it's the motivations and hatred that you should judge people on. For example, if someone robs a bank because they cannot control theyre greed, that is even more wrong then someone robbing a grocery store because they have no other way of feeding themselves or their children. Acts themselves are not wrong, people are.

Deviance.

I, personally, don't think there are any absolute truths to anything deviant or criminal. I believe that there's circumstances to anything and everything that change the severity and seriousness of the act. For example, stealing. Of course it's not morally okay, but when you're at the end of your resources and you have a child to feed you will do anything to feed them. If someone was stealing things like tvs, ipods, and recreational things are obviously not things you need. Another act of deviance is lying. While this isn't exactly something you get prison time for, it's still morally wrong. But sometimes people lie for the right the reasons, sometimes they have good intentions, sometimes it's to protect someone, sometimes it's to protect themselves. Even penalties for sincerely wrong, immoral acts are too harsh, in my opinion. People make mistakes. Good people make mistakes, but that doesn't make them bad people right?

Bucket List

1. Be succesful

2. Walk the enitre California coast.

3. Sleep in the desert.



4. Witness something lifechanging.

5. Buy a plane ticket to nowhere.

6. Fall in love there.

7. Open an art institute for troubled youth.

8. Save a life.

9. Read poetry at a coffee shop.

10. Die Happy.



Sex Ed Vs. Abstinence

In my opinion I think that schools should teach both sex education and abstinence. No matter what you tell teenagers, they're going to want to have sex, and they're going to do what they want. Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of kids that feel strongly about not having sex until marriage or until they're in love or whatever else but there's also plenty that don't feel that way. If school's are only teachin abstinence, the kids that are pasrticipating in sexual acivities aren't going to hvae any idea about the precautions they should take, or the risks they're taking by having sex. Personally, my parents never told me anything about sex at all so if i was never in any ind of health class i would have no idea whatsoever except for what friends have told me. also, I think sex ed should be mandatory. most kids probably won't want to make the decision to take sex ed.

Aging Discrimination

I'm sure at come point everyone has been discriminated against becuase of their age. On different occasions I've been to resteraunts with friends of mine and the host or servers look annoyed. They expect us to make a mess, or be rude, and not tip. Because of that the server usually takes less care of you, stopping by maybe once throughout your meal to check to see if you need anything because they just don't expect a tip from you, so you're not worth it. On more than one occasion I've been to eat with my parents where the server hardly left our table. Also, I work at a fast food resteraunt. When teenagers, especially boys, order food I dread taking their order out because I expect them to be rude and make fun. At the same time, when older people come through, anyone is willing to take the orer out because most of them tip well.

Parenting Neglect

In my opinion these are cases of neglect but I think the state should be understand towards them. I think that the parents should be forced to get medical help for their children, but no penalties on the parents like the kids being taken away from them. I think it's neglect because the kids do in fact need the medical attention. The parents have to understand that even though it may be hard to go through some things they're children have to do it, and the state needs to understnad that the parents werent intentionally trying to harm their children they were trying to svae them from more grief.