He dared not agree.
"That's not what I mean. I just feel they're all still children. If they really get a criminal record, it'll ruin their whole lives. Look, can you give them another chance? I'll have them apologize to you." All these people were over sixteen years of age, some even eighteen. If pursued, they would definitely be punished.
Shen Weiyi: "If an apology was useful, then what would be the need for the law?"
An apology is necessary, but just an apology is useless.
"Director Li has heard too, now it's not just them discussing things around the school. Rumors spread from one person to ten, from ten to a hundred. In the end, who will care about the truth? It might as well show everyone that our school is not beyond the law. Public opinion can destroy a person just as well, and only by increasing the cost of illegal activities, making rumor spreaders pay the price, can we make everyone else shut up."
