<p>“Thoughtless” Means giving no thought to the consequences of one’s actions. Seventeen is still very young (especially for boys). Maturity isn’t usually something most boys at that age have in spades. Couple that with improper moral guidance, and bad peer influence, and you have a recipe for A bad outcome in many, many circumstances. The good news is that people can change. They can grow and learn from their mistakes. Hopefully, that’s just what this young man has done. The question is, is society going to give him a chance to redeem himself, or are we just going to continue the holier-than-thou?</p>
<p>"Maybe in this case, thoughtles behavior means the boys didn’t think the video would get out? "</p>
<p>Have you missed the fact that girls willingly participated in the video, and both the males and females were around the same age? The girl was 15, the guy was 17. Girls in general are far more mature than are guys their same age, so it’s not as if the males were molesting young children or raping young women.</p>
<p>Neither the males nor females who participated in that event seem to have had good judgment. Not surprising since both alcohol and a lack of adult supervision seem to have been involved.</p>
<p>Not sure what your point is, NSM. I didn’t miss anything- I was just making a play on words, followed by a 
However, unfortunately, the way our antiquated law was written here, the younger girl was not old enough, by law, to give consent for oral sex, and was therefore the “victim” in this case. Doesn’t matter what her “maturinty” level was. By law here she was the victim of a sexual molestation.</p>