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Not defending it, but the idea of a suspended sentence is to give the person a chance to prove they really meant the nice story they told the judge. Do wrong and you're automatically in deep doo, but do right and you're on the road to being reformed. It actually works in many cases, but we only hear about the failures.
Empathy is in all of us at some level from birth. It is then nurture that either push’s it forward as a trait or chokes it off. Nature can come from a number of direction it does not have to be immediate family.
The older the person the harder although not impossible it is to bring out this trait in people. Why it is so important to give kids the best from wherever it can be it can be supplied as this can counter family which potentially makes life ‘better’ for them and society. If you do not have enough of it there is a medical term for this
In a lot of cases brought on by today's society, the term which could be coined is "Realismitis'.Quote:
Originally Posted by 3toes