“They will never love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate.” — Edmund Burke

There’s a 13- or 14-year-old boy in my neighborhood who routinely engages in minor acts of juvenile delinquency: knocking over trash cans placed at the street, throwing bricks at mailboxes, standing in the road blocking traffic and shrieking insults at pedestrians. He and his mother routinely engage in late-night shouting matches outside their house — verbal altercations the young lad utilizes to demonstrate his precocious mastery of all terms vulgar and profane.

Like everything else these days, the delinquent’s nefarious deeds are chronicled online. On the neighborhood Facebook page, a couple of dozen residents have weighed in on the matter: What is the appropriate punishment for th

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