Go to any public place with children, then teach them to rob the vending machines.
After you do this ask all of the other people in the public place their opinion about your teaching children to rob vending machines.
I think you will find that most people would think it is wrong to go to public places and teach the children there to rob vending machines or accept "gifts" from strangers
You seem to feel that the posters actions were ?bad? because others will allow you to punish the youth who posted. Your conception of right and wrong is infantile. It?s based on whether punishment can be meted. Quite literally, it is the ?infantile? stage of moral development. (age 0-3)
Level 1, Stage 1 - Obedience >>> Whatever is rewarded is good, whatever is punsished is bad.
However, even on this base level, you are wrong. People will not be alarmed about the young posters? actions, let alone agree it requires punishment ...
My college has a renowned dance institute in which children partake. The Nutcracker was being performed. My professor announced that the vending machine outside had broken and if we wanted free drinks we should get them before the kids took them all. Outside there were kids in costume, their moms, and dance instructors etc milling about. The kids were excited at the bonanza. Some asked students to hit the higher buttons that they could not reach... That?s a pretty fair sampling of society don't you think? Suburban moms, dance instructors, students, professors, maintenance people, techs. No one contacted the authorities or attempted to halt the event. Nor was anyone beaten in the parking lot.
Believe it or not, there is even a website called 'Broken' which addresses the 'terrible crime' of robbing vending machines.
http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:Fg ... =clnk&cd=1Here children and adults discuss getting free food from broken vending machines. This website is put up by VENDING MACHINE OWNERS and they too have not contacted authorities or chastised the older ?vending machine robbers? for teaching the younger ones. There is even a button to remove inappropriate posts (that no one has used) to demand these people stop teaching the young to ?rob vending macines?( I?m sure you will though)
The terrible crimes described above are far more heinous than the one the poster committed, with the value of the vending machine booty far more precious. But no one cares. This is because adults often move beyond "pre-conventional" (infantile) definitions of morality. Morality is not RULES. Well adjusted adults do not see RULES as morality, but rather see the reasoning that goes into rules. Because of this they can see context. You lack this ability.
If you don?t believe me then I suggest you email the 'broken vending machine' stories to major media outlets and law enforcement agencies. See the response you get.
Contrast this with the response received when people who have worked in your cults come forward with what they have witnessed and taken part in...
After that,we will all take you out for a little group session in the parking lot.
Ummm? Can you stop incriminating yourself for a even a moment? Yes, we know ?group sessions? are not about therapy but intimidation and beatings. Unfortunately for you however, program rules do not apply in the real world. Any attempt to recruit people in order to mete out exessive punishments to ridicuous "offences" - such as helping children obtain cheap trifles from a broken vending machine - will only be looked upon with the contempt and disdain it so richly deserves.