And here I sit, typing away

In my mind, I don't think that any of those are seriously a reason for a person not to be responsible. If you're stupid enough to become inebriated enough to break the law, then you should probably stay away from alcohol for a while. And how is it that a high schooler is responsible for making decisions about the rest of their life, like what they want to be, etc. but not do follow common sense rules? If you're dumb enough to be coerced by another person into doing something stupid, then you probably deserve to be in jail or wherever. Personally, I don't think that insanity is a good enough excuse. If you can live in everyday society and people don't tell you that you're nuts, then it's no excuse. If you can wake up and get dressed by yourself in the morning, then you can decide not to kill someone. I think that it mostly depends on the situation, if the person is ignorant of the consequences. If they kill someone, then the consequences are pretty obvious. But if it's just like, going a little bit over the speed limit, then I think that they're OK. The only reason that anyone follows the law is because there are consequences. But there are consequences for everything, so I sometimes wonder why people do stupid things.

I think that there is a certain degree of guilt to everything. There should be a little bit of a consequence, but nothing super major. There's so much gray area in this that it's hard to say anything on such a broad topic. I love it though. I think that that's terrible that that happened, but I'm not going to lie, that's probably what I would do. It's Portland, no one really knows what's real and what's not. I think it was the person who stabbed him, because he made the choice to stab him, and that sucks.

Our society is based on a major trust relationship. We trust that people will have a little bit of common sense, follow the traffic laws, that the people who are making the laws will know what they're doing, the doctors who are operating on us, or that the teachers facts are straight, etc. How ridiculous are we? But that's what happens. That's what we have to do to survive. So the person who sold him the knife trusted the stabber not to do something dumb with it. The person who was stabbed walked out his door that day, trusting the people on his way not to kill him, and it turns out that his trust was misplaced in that one person. It's solely the persons fault. He didn't have to view the violent images, or whatever made him do it, he didn't have to do anything. No one held a gun up to his head and said that he had to stab someone. It was all his personal choices, and we are responsible for what we do. I think that's what it comes down to.