I wanted to think more about volunteering to become a sentient space ship but recent events have brought me back to social realities. The latest events concern a Stanford student caught in the act of raping an unconscious women, going to trial, and being sentenced to six months by a judge who is an alum of the same school. The following is a steal from USA Today:

The Stanford University swimming star convicted of raping an unconscious woman outside a fraternity party told his sentencing judge he was "shattered by the party culture" during his four-month stint as a student at the iconic school.

The Guardian obtained and published a section of Brock Turner’s full statement to Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky. Turner sought probation but last week received a six-month jail term that has been criticized as too lenient.

Turner, now 20, acknowledges he is the "sole proprietor of what happened" on the infamous January 2015 night. Most of the excerpt discusses the impact on him rather than his 23-year-old victim. He says his dreams are haunted by the physical and emotional damage he did to her.

"During the day, I shake uncontrollably from the amount I torment myself by thinking about what has happened," he says. "I can barely hold a conversation with someone without having my mind drift into thinking these thoughts. They torture me. I go to sleep every night having been crippled by these thoughts to the point of exhaustion."

Turner blames his "poor decisions" on binge drinking and "sexual promiscuity," which he in turn blames on peer pressure.

This piece-of-shit human is broken. (And, in my usual rush to judgment, I glance at his father.)

"A recall effort against a California judge was announced on Monday in a sexual assault case at Stanford University that ignited public outrage after the defendant was sentenced to a mere six months in jail and his father complained that his son’s life had been ruined for “20 minutes of action” fueled by alcohol and promiscuity."

"Twenty minutes of action"???? Any guesses as to how this guy feels about women? Looks to me like this kid has been dragged along an all together too familiar path for his entire life.

But that doesn't excuse his sociopathic actions. For that he has to be put away until he understands the enormity of his crime. 

Same with that "affluenza" kid down in Texas who killed a bunch of people in a car incident and who then got off of serious consequences because "he was too rich to understand" his bad actions.

What are we raising here folks? There seems to be a special class of people in this country who feel somehow above societal norms. Getting easier to see why a lot of people hate white people.