Growing old's like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.
It's no use growing older if you only learn new ways of misbehaving yourself.
I am no longer a criminal. I gave up that practice years ago.
People are still emulating the old fashioned criminal.
But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment.
Growing old is not growing up.
What has too often happened in the past is that people have threatened punishment but have failed to carry it out. It's imperative in any initiative that is undertaken that punishment be real and that there be truth in sentencing, and that the truly dangerous offenders - the recidivists and the career criminals - be put away and kept away.
You will feel the full force of the law and if you are old enough to commit these crimes you are old enough to face the punishments. And to these people I would say this: you are not only wrecking the lives of others, you are potentially wrecking your own life too.
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
I'm 68 years old, and I'm as much a criminal now as I was at the age of 22. And, I'm even more of a dissident than I was then.