Talk:Finn Collins/@comment-26525483-20150626045543/@comment-76.17.103.248-20150628164152

The only thing more ridiculous than locking up a child for acting out over seeing her parents floated was locking up Octavia for being born, like she had a choice in that. Seriously, what was the charge. .  commiting birth? And I'm sure little Charlotte did a lot of damage to that grown up guard. Just how did they expect a child to react to something as traumatic as losing her parents like that? She needed counseling, not incarceration. How Draconian could these people get?

So now you think a child should be cast out into the wilderness to survive on her own or be captured by the grounders like Murphy and maybe tortued for information. Murphy was a cowardly bully. He was afraid to take on Bellamy who allowed him to be lynched and kicked the stool from underneath him. Instead, he goes after a little girl. What was he going to do, string her up? Nice chaotic society.

Clarke and Finn absolutely did the right thing to protect Charlotte from that kind of lawless violence. This was a damaged, impressionable child. What she did was awful, and Clarke was right to make her understand that. But civilized people don't lynch or banish children. Kids her age don't even have fully developed brains to properly judge right from wrong. You administer the appropriate penalty for a juvenile offender and try to rehabilitate her. By recognizing her crime for what it was, Charlotte had already begun the process. That she sacrificed herself to protect Clarke was an indication that there was some good there to build on. It's troubling this black and white perception I'm seeing for people like Charlotte and Finn.