AngelofDeath, we live in a world where people are actively encouraged to NOT take responsibility for their actions. It's much easier to blame something outside of oneself for one's actions rather than taking personal responsibility for the actions.
Unfortunately, the legislative complex we have built up in the United States now encourages litigation rather than compromise and mediation. The kids are doing what their lawyer has told them to do: blame it on "music" so they can use that as a legal smokescreen and possibly squeak by on technicality or at least get a significantly reduced sentence.
There are a lot of people out there who are willing to sign over a lot of their freedoms and rights because they are unwilling to take accountability for their actions. As Thomas Jefferson once said, "Those who barter an ounce of their liberty for an ounce of security, lose both and deserve neither." Slowly, little by little, we are eroding the foundations of freedom that the United States was built upon and entangling ourselves in an invisible legal web that will one day choke us all.
What will happen? Should this case be pulled off, there will be more government regulation and sanctions against the music industry, more record labels will refuse to carry certain kinds of music, prices will rise because of industry liability insurance, and the very ones who started it in the first place (ourselves) are the ones who will pay the price for our foolishness.
Far better it would be to investigate the true cause of the crime: kids without a sense of what is right or wrong, choosing to conduct an unspeakable crime, for reasons that only they themselves know.
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