“hey’ve been doing this since at least the 1800s so this isn’t really anything new”
Sadly you’re quite right. It’s remarkable how little society progresses over the years, and it seems each generation confronts the same age-old battle between good and evil.
They do this so they can kill and not be tried as an adult. They then get out of Juvie at 18.
Seems that lately, many just skip the battle and adopt evil.