[esoterica]

Would you advocate leniency this forcefully for a 17 year old teenager of color who was charged with committing hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of property theft (e.g. stealing expensive cars)? Or do you want this kid to receive special treatment just because you identify with his demographic? Presumably you were also once a tech-savvy teenage hacker at some point.

People with your mindset are responsible for a lot of the inequity in the criminal justice system. Upper middle class suburban white kids (e.g. Brock Turner) get away with slaps on the wrist all the time for the same crimes that poor and minority teenagers get sent to prison for years over, because judges (who were almost all previously upper middle class white suburban kids themselves) feel sorry for them and chalk their crimes down to kids being kids.