“The average gaol will offer you bad people, people who made lots of bad decisions, people who made one bad decision, and people who were just very unlucky on one particular day.” “True,” Aaron admitted. “But they all committed offences, all the same. They made the choices that put them in gaol, when other people made different choices in similar circumstances.” “Similar circumstances? Like when the hungry child wickedly steals a penny bun from the baker’s, whereas the well-fed banker standing next to him nobly chooses to pay?”

