Response - ability

Voluntary admission of guilt is not a protection but is likely to make one a pawn to a larger investigation. We know that from a multitude of cop shows. Our ethics are formed by such examples. "He is a grass, so he gets it when he is put inside" is the logic that keeps the informer out of prison.

In efforts to reform the child we observe a gradual process of developing responsibility. The trick is to develop a response that is ethical. Responsibility is the fact of responding "properly" but not just with the awareness that others will judge you, but because you want, of your own free will, to enact a response that you understand as appropriate.

I question the values of a system that only punishes miscreants, and then sends them to a place of no responsibility. It is not the law that is at fault, but a need for revenge, a blood lust that defeats humans from evolving an ethical sense.