According to this article 2 boys aged 9 and 11 have been gaoled for at least 5 years for a sadistic attack on 2 other boys.
As a Comensalist, I hold that equality lies not in everyone being the same, but in everyone not getting a choice in the circumstances of their birth.
Certainly, it is unbelievable to think anyone would choose the parents of these children for their own.
Why are these parents not in gaol?
The article states :
“The court heard how the brothers watched ultra-violent movies as part of a “toxic home life” of “routine aggression, violence and chaos”, while one of them smoked cannabis from the age of nine and drank cider.”
What is most frightening to me is that in years to come, these ‘torture boys’ could become fathers of their own children.
Is it possible to rehabilitate someone who has strayed so far from the norm of human decency?
I have always believed there is a worse crime than murder. Worse than rape, worse even than child abuse.
That is the crime of teaching children to hate.
While the other -undeniably heinous- crimes affect one or a few individuals, teaching children to hate or despise on the basis of race, colour or creed can  affect literally millions, for generations.
But this crime seems to be of a different order; not so much focussed hatred, as monstrous indifference.
This is the most egregious example of breaking that one most important law in human society;
“Do Unto Others, As You Would Have Them Do Unto You”.

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