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Take it from someone who grew up in affluent surroundings and spent adulthood mostly in service jobs and the electrical trade, barely in the middle class most years: Wealth doesn't change you. It's like fame. It only amplifies who you really are inside by giving you the power and freedom to do so. I've known horrible people from all backgrounds, same token I've known great people. One of the best people I've ever known in every aspect was born in the silver spoon club, and since this thread has a money theme, even with multimillionaire parents he still started his working life at 18 with crap jobs, like washing cars and bussing dishes. The Couch clan would be the scum of the States no matter where they lived or how much money they had. MAYBE if they were dirt poor Appalacian coal town dwellers, the consequences would be rejection and ostracism toon by a culturally close-knit community. But that wouldn't have changed them, they'd just be the fucks in a shack on the edge of town who no one talks to. As it is, these types live on gated properties anyway so not much difference. There WAS a possibility that Ethan might have developed morals on his own, much like how not every child of hardcore racists follows suit. A slim chance, granted, what with dad declaring "We who make the gold in the world make the rules" but still. Virtues and vices are like talents and intelligence, they just pop up randomly in the population. Or sometimes, they don't at all. I'm not a conservative, but this really isn't something that could be avoided by altering wealth and capitalism. That said, the Texas justice system blew this big time. THAT one, you can alter.
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Texas didn't blow anything. Texas is usually tough with sentencing. I wondery why not this time? Hint:  Texas just gave 50 years in prison to a guy who was videotaping himself torturing stray cats on dozens of occasions. Don't get me wrong, he deserves every day of that 50 years, but the main difference was that this morally-bankrupt psycho wasn't wealthy like Ethan was. Autechresaint posted:For once the foxnews comments help with why it's so light: I am confused though. Why isn't fleeing the country something he is being charged with as an adult? The fleeing the country part wasn't done when he was a juvenile. Why give him 10 years probation if he will still be tried as a juvie for a probation violation when he's 26? Chumbawumba4ever97 fucked around with this message at 02:07 on Apr 19, 2016 |
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Bumping because he's actually getting the slammer. 2 years is better than zilch. Hopefully it's in a legit joint, like what OJ's incarcerated in, not one of those cushy dorm ones. He's proven that he needs a punishment.
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Maybe now he can find Jesus and become the new Indiana Jones America needs. God bless, Namaste
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I forget: Did Mexico just drop their case against him, or are they taking the slow burn?
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Agent Escalus posted:Bumping because he's actually getting the slammer. 2 years is better than zilch. Hopefully it's in a legit joint, like what OJ's incarcerated in, not one of those cushy dorm ones. He's proven that he needs a punishment. He's in solitary in a maximum security prison, "for his own protection": http://www.cbsnews.com/news/affluenza-teen-ethan-couch-sentenced-to-nearly-two-years-in-jail/ quote:Ethan Couch was extradited back to the U.S. on Jan. 28. He has spent most of his days since then in solitary confinement at Tarrant County's maximum-security prison. Tarrant County Sheriff Dee Anderson has said Couch was isolated from other inmates for his own protection. Two years isn't very long, but he'll suffer every day of it.
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