@Telltails said:
Hear hear. I have a boy of two and I already worry about how his mum and I are going to deal with his bad decisions down the track, just as I think of how lucky I was to largely get away with some of my own.
I'm not saying we should give people who victimise innocent members of the community a pat on the back and a lollipop (which seems to be the accusation from the talk radio crowd every time anyone argues anything less than hanging for jaywalkers). But it does seem that the thing we're increasingly missing in society nowadays is empathy. And that means for both victim and perpetrator. In the vast majority of cases I don't think we can just say "he's a scumbag" and give up on a person.
Maybe Lodge needs some time off the streets purely for the protection of those around him - it certainly seems that he can't, at present, be trusted not to ruin other people's days/lives. But after protecting the innocent I believe the priority should be getting him and others like him to a place where violence and intimidation aren't the go-to responses to any setback.
