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Originally Posted by Black_Power
yep cosign both of you both
if my son was an innocent and got killed by some scumback high on drugs who thought we some local bad man then that guy has gotta go....simple as that...its about karma and sometimes you have to just execute your own justice
but if my boy is running in them circles and doing the same things as them then that a chance he took.....he would have been warned against it but you cant play both sides of the fence
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BP and others , I have to disagree (strongly) on this one. Bredder Tukoma as you said "no one deserves to die...". I would add in these or similar circumstances. I can envisage few if any qualifications to that, really. The youth who died was a child. Misguided, perhaps stupid and wayward, but a child nonetheless. What an appalling way to die.
My younger cousin at 17 spun off the rails. She came from a "good" home, strong family, good ethics and values but she simply got involved with the wrong crowd and spun totally off the rails. I'll spare you the details but it was ROUGH. EVen worse on occasion she was violent. BOttom line ? She got to about 20 years of age and totally turned her life around. 9 years later she is a qualified doctor training to be a surgeon. Would she have deserved all she got if the crowd (dangerous and deadly) that she was running with had got her killed. Would we just have shrugged our shoulders and put it down to the fact that this was a "risk she took"?
To be fair I do hear what you are saying and can even understand the sentiment to an extent, life is about individual responsibility, it is just that in this instance what you say runs counter to what I think is right. but then I subscribe to the "village" theory of raising a child. More important for me is that having read this story , literally over and over again, I simply cannot relate to or understand it in any way. The mindset of the youths who carried out this murder (including the girl who is equally culpable in my book) is a million miles away from anything I will ever understand. What would you be thinking to act in this callous, cold blooded and pre-meditated way? I find this frightening to be honest. And those that no me will no that I am not easily scared...
The tragic thing is that are too many of the these stories, maybe not as an extreme but in the papers everyday. What is causing this? Is it really as Ankhor Man says all about respect ? As a community what if any responsibility do we bear for this? I fear that there must be some. This is more than just shouting 'lock them up and throw away the key' every time this murdeorus mayhem happens amongst our youth. And yes, before someone says it, this may happen in other communities and be hushed up. But I'm African and it is our youth and their future that is weighing on my mind.
Whatever the issue I agree with Ankhor Man that this is a community issue which requires communuity initiative.
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