Think about the fact that before they started Apple Jobs and Woz were heavily involved in phone phreaking. What would they be doing instead if they had begun their careers today? Would they have dared to do the sort of things that Aaron did? And if the criminal justice system came down on them back then as hard as it did on Aaron today would Apple computer, or NeXt, or Pixar, etc. even exist today?
Aaron was not a bad guy, nor did he seem to ever act with malicious intent. He broke some rules, certainly, but should the punishment for rule breaking be the destruction of someone's life or should it be just enough of a push to make them avoid rule breaking while keeping them a productive member of society?
Thanks for the reply, but I already made it clear that I don't agree with how the case was handled. My only objection us that the analogy has a pretty big hole.
Aaron was not a bad guy, nor did he seem to ever act with malicious intent. He broke some rules, certainly, but should the punishment for rule breaking be the destruction of someone's life or should it be just enough of a push to make them avoid rule breaking while keeping them a productive member of society?