Tragedy and Harsh Truth

This story is really tragic, BUT, I have a glaring fact with the whole thing.

The judge seemed to be upset having to only give the teen probation instead of incarceration because....

The teen who died was negligent with his own life. The teen who sold him the drugs can't be held totally responsible. The drug-dealer didn't hold the other teen down and force him to take all the drugs at once, though he did tell the dead teen to take them all at once. He approached them, but didn't force them to buy anything. The now dead teen apparently was into more drugs than just the ones he died from, as he was on other drugs all at the same time, as noted in the article.

The dead teen never learned how to say "no."

The parents are in a way negligent for not helping their son be a stronger person. This is nearly impossible these days with the suffocating peer pressure.

It's hard to get past the part where the drug-dealer told the teen to take all 6 Xanax, I know. But he wasn't forced by the drug-dealer, so the punishment really did fit the crime. That and the fact of knowing you sold a substance to someone that helped them die.

Try sleeping on that.