Every parent should insist that their kids, especially the male kids

[FromMissouri]

Must watch these hearings. Even if you are fifteen, or fourteen, or seventeen, you need to understand that your acts have consequences.
High school guys with hardons have very little awareness of consequences.
There are always consequences.

[LandOfHopeAndDreams]

1. You Meant To Say Your Actions DON'T Have Consequences

Hold him up as an example of what rewards can come to you even if you are a bad person when you're young.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

2. Only if you're rich and white and go to a posh school.

Then you can join the asshole culture and do whatever you want for the rest of your life. If you're poor and other than white, you're more likely to get shot for jaywalking by the time you're 17.

[FromMissouri]

3. yeah, I know

Most, perhaps all of my high school friends have fallen into the career tracks, miniscule as they were, laid out for them. And they stayed back home, and everything is -- well, not ok, but at least tolerable...
But so many of us were trapped by our past.
When I was thinking of running for congress, and I hired a consultant, and he explained it all to me, 'think of the worst thing that you ever did. That's going to be in a TV ad for your opponent.'

What I'm saying is, they were right, back in Catholic primary school: there is now a permanent record.