Now that, Poppets, is what is called 'being out of touch' and 'misreading the room'.
Why would grown people NOT discuss the zip tying on one occasion of a few kids doing something sort of wrong, as a restraining measure?
Why would grown people NOT discuss or argue the case for lowering the criminal age of responsibility when criminals are becoming younger and smarter and far more dangerous every day in their criminal ways?
It's called 'exploring the options' in adult world instead of licking their nuts as a group and telling them they are victims for stealing someone's hard-earned car and smashing it and killing half a dozen people. Various governments have tried other ways - without any success at all but rather with resounding failure..... minor crime is escalating, not decreasing .... so in the cases where clearly parents and 'elders' will not intervene positively to control behaviour that is illegal and often amounts to serious breaches of law........ what are the options?
Oh - I know! I Know!! Remove those kids from an unsuitable environment that is creating of them future criminals and serial prison gate openers and closers. That'll work!
Or maybe they DO need that 'state of their own' they demanded, where they can 'do things their way' as the Melbourne whale with three jobs out of the public purse demanded - a place where they can live their Idyllic lifestyle far from the madding crowds of Wharte People. Any thoughts on that, out-of-touchers?
The Third Way of The Buddha - if the zip tie is too tight, it will unzip the soul of the miscreant... if it is too loose, it will allow the miscreant to escape. Better to remove the miscreant from the mountain of potential future crime than to move the mountain of potential future crime away from the miscreant. Better to shift the bad-asses than move Alice Springs.....
You are welcome, No-Hopers.