@saasher2012 wrote:
As you say you can't be sure what he would do in twenty years time, & many a do gooder has been on the receiving end of the very person they were trying to help!
If you are going to try to compare stealing a bag of sweets to a murder then I will give you another just as silly.
A dog through no fault of its own & acting on instinct attacks a human & kills them is automatically destroyed!! End of!!.

Absolutely, they are the most dangerous type of dog, one which acts on instinct through no fault of it's own, unpredictable and irrational; just as this psychopath may have been acting on unpredicatable and irrational instinct through no fault of his own!

 

The stealing of sweets was not a comparison but an illustration; an illustration of how the justice system has to be fair to all, including the offender.