Brandon O’Quinn Rasberry, 32, was shot in the head in 2022 while he slept at an RV park in Nixon, Texas, about 60 miles (97 kilometers) east of San Antonio, investigators said. He had just moved in a few days before.

The boy’s possible connection to the case was uncovered after sheriff’s deputies were contacted on April 12 of this year about a student who threatened to assault and kill another student on a school bus. They learned the boy had made previous statements that he had killed someone two years ago.

The boy was taken to a child advocacy center, where he described for interviewers details of Rasberry’s death “consistent with first-hand knowledge” of the crime, investigators said.

  • I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world
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    The kid is rotten. While he may still be developing, most kids do not kill strangers in cold blood. He was either already on track to develop into a psychopath, or the murder firmly put him on that path. Note how he got caught because he was bragging about it.

    Is it too late to save the kid? Maybe not, it’s certainly worth trying. But considering what he did, and the environment he’s living in, I don’t foresee him getting the dedicated mental resources he needs.

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      I always wonder why people think murderers are “worth saving”. My guy stole someone’s entire life, why should he get to have one and have special attention made to it?

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        The scope is far greater than eye for an eye. While they’ll never be able to undo what they did, there is a possibility that they may make positive contributions to society. Contributions that could save multiple lives. That’s not even going into the problems of allowing a state to ritualistically murder people.

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          What if we measure that some people make a negative contribution to society ?

          I don’t mean criminals even, just people who are for a reason or another, a net loss, and we know for sure.

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            You’ll always have people who are a net loss. That’s the whole point of living in a society, to overcome together and take care of those that cannot take care of themselves. If everyone was self sufficient, we never would have joined together to be the herd animals that we are.

            “The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members.”

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                I disagree that it undermines that at all. Some people are able to be rehabilitated, some aren’t. Aside from that, are you trying to say that because someone is a net loss to society they should just be cast aside?

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                  I disagree that it undermines that at all. Some people are able to be rehabilitated, some aren’t.

                  In addition, rehabilitation, like other complex psychological things like grief, is not a linear nor fully understood thing. Someone exhibiting anti-social behavior may not be able to be rehabilitated at a given time due to many possible factors, be it intrinsic to the individual or collective knowledge. Even if one cannot be safely re-integrated into society, there are ways that they can voluntarily contribute and likely would choose to, even if it were for selfish reasons (ex. many serial killers are aware that there is something profoundly wrong with them and happy to contribute data to prevent others or get their names in books).

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            What if we measure that some people make a negative contribution to society ?

            I don’t mean criminals even, just people who are for a reason or another, a net loss, and we know for sure.

            If you don’t want people to compare this to Naziism, perhaps don’t just reinvent the concept of “useless eaters.”

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              I’m sorry, but the logic is built in to

              “While they’ll never be able to undo what they did, there is a possibility that they may make positive contributions to society. Contributions that could save multiple lives.”

              When used as a justification to oppose

              “I always wonder why people think murderers are “worth saving”. My guy stole someone’s entire life, why should he get to have one and have special attention made to it?”

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        It’s just violence all the way down with you people, isn’t it?

        You: “I don’t like murderers, so I want the government to become the murderer of murderers!”

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          This doesn’t even remotely address my genuine question. It’s just dickheadedness all the way down with you people isn’t it?

          You: “I just make random shit up and say you said it, I’m infinitely intelligent.”