Well, to do the least harm, you would probably send the kid to therapy, monitor them, or even lock them up, not kill them. The reason it seems so odd to lock up

Well, to do the least harm, you would probably send the kid to therapy, monitor them, or even lock them up, not kill them. The reason it seems so odd to lock up a kid for torturing a small animal is that it's really not that predictive. Not even close. So your example is just really, really terrible. So, great, you're the Ethics (capital E!) genius of Hacker News. I still thought it was a great talk though. But what do I know.