Quote from Dust: "My point is that, with each different environment, comes vastly different, experiences, values, role models or lack thereof, difficulties, affluence, poverty etc. The list is endless."
Dust, I am interested to read your post, however I feel the need to ask a question or two. What should our society do to make allowances for these different environments, experiences etc? Should we have a different set of rules around crime and punishments for each segment of our society? How would a reasonably well educated kid respond to seeing a less fortunate kid getting a lighter punishment for a similar crime purely based on the fact that the less fortunate kid had a "bit of a tough upbringing". I don't have any of the answers here but I can see this type of suggestion causing protential chaos in a supposedly civilized society.
