Beating

I don't understand the kind of cruelty it takes to randomly and sensely beat someone to death like three teenagers in Fort Lauderdale did recently. Authorities say these boys attacked at least three homeless men with paintball guns and baseball bats. These attacks seem to be done out of sport, not because of a vendetta against the particular victims. Two of the three attackers were 18 and one was 17. Certianly at the age both legally and developmentally speaking where they can differentiate between right and wrong. Right and wrong may have been taught to them, but the message obviously didn't get through. Beating someone to death is much more personal and involved than shooting someone with a gun. A gun can cause instant death if the shooter knows what he's doing. It takes a deeper and different kind of malice to fatally beat someone because the victim probably isn't dead with the first whack from your bat. You have to keep plowing into them, watching them writhe in pain and listening to their cries. With three boys doing this, you would think at least one of them would feel a twinge of guilt strong enough to say, "This isn't right." Every living thing deserves to have some dignity. Being unwillingly shot with a paintball gun and beaten with a bat by strangers is not a dignified way to go. But I guess if these boys can't even determine what's right and wrong, they certainly can't understand the concept of dignity.