Dear Chess World

Re:Dear Chess World by MichaelCollins on Monday September 26, 2022 @05:15PM (#32988529)

> If someone kills a person at 16. Should the killer be in prison for life?

If you murder somebody at 16, you shouldn't be a free man at 19. Three years is not enough time for somebody to mature and mellow.

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Re:Dear Chess World by Andrew_nenakhov on Monday September 26, 2022 @05:32PM (#32988799)

People really start to mature and become aware of their responsibilities and consequences for their actions at 15. So 16 years old person has only about 1 year of adult life experience vs 4 years at 19.

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Re:Dear Chess World by MichaelCollins on Monday September 26, 2022 @06:09PM (#32989226)

I think your estimation is about 10 years too young.

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Re:Dear Chess World by zakk on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @07:51AM (#32994157)

Still, cheating at chess is not murdering someone!

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Re:Dear Chess World by MichaelCollins on Tuesday September 27, 2022 @11:51AM (#32996976)

And being banned from competitive chess is not an execution or lengthy imprisonment.

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Re:Dear Chess World by Andrew_nenakhov on Wednesday September 28, 2022 @04:26AM (#33005569)

I believe that your position is utterly immoral and cruel. Everyone deserves a path to redemption, and a kid cheating at chess in his childhood does not deserve an eternal punishment for the rest of his life because of it.

Imagine if he is a generational talent and one of the best in the world, are you really ready to deprive him any future just because he did stupid things as a kid?

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