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Hortensis

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7. That is not something I could possibly know. Nor you.

Reply to Bernardo de La Paz (Reply #6)

Tue Nov 30, 2021, 04:14 PM

Nov 2021

But more to the point, he's not someone's father or grandfather. He's an adolescent. His brain will spend the next several years developing before he is able to function as an adult.

There should hopefully be a huge difference in insight and judgement between the two stages of life, with far greater understanding, and ideally even a touch of wisdom, gained with age. If there wasn't, that would have to be on the older person.

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I disagree with keeping him out of college vlyons Nov 2021 #1

So, a fake registration for a get-out-of-jail card Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #2

That's what this was Johnny2X2X Nov 2021 #3

It's possible to wish him ill without claiming to know Hortensis Nov 2021 #4

You are free to believe what you want about him. And free to present evidence he IS a serious studen Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #6

That is not something I could possibly know. Nor you. Hortensis Nov 2021 #7

Your "know" would be criminal justice standard. However, we can figure out what is likely, what is a Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #9

:) Black and white are the classic binary. Good and bad. Hortensis Nov 2021 #11

Send that Hans Rosling quote to the families of the 2 human beings gab13by13 Nov 2021 #14

Rittenhouse did not get created by a vacuum. He pulled the trigger, but there are deeper roots. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #16

It isn't rocket science, gab13by13 Nov 2021 #21

Well getting a key fact right isn't always rocket science either Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #22

Rosling quote is very good. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #15

I agree with every bit of your post except 1 item, gab13by13 Nov 2021 #13

Vigilantes deserve NO respect. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #17

Was dropping out a choice? LiberatedUSA Nov 2021 #8

He dropped out before he killed. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #10

Well...then that answers that. N/t LiberatedUSA Nov 2021 #12

Long before. Fascistic Governor Rick Scott would strongly agree that Hortensis Nov 2021 #19

+1. But Rittenhouse's online registration at ASU was just for show. He wasn't prevented. . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Nov 2021 #23

Very possible. Things changed between signing up Hortensis Nov 2021 #24

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