"issues that lead once good individuals to make poor choices" Ben w, there comes a time when you own your decisions and actions. While a 8, 10, 12 year old, may lack the cognitive function and/or impulse control to not steal and adult does. At that time it becomes a choice and to a societal flaw or fault. So you look forward to whatever you want, but no rational society will accept predatory behavior perpetrated on it's citizens.