I understand what you're saying. And believe me, I spent enough time working in the "justice system" to know how screwed up it is. I couldn't wait to get out.

My only thing is the 6 individuals who hosted this thing apparently put a lot of thought into advertising and promoting it and had to know: 1) They were going to be breaking a LOT of laws by allowing underage drinking in their shared home, 2) There would be severe consequences when things went bad.

They went bad. There were consequences. I get what you're saying about a screwed up system. On the other hand, this is the type of stupidity, frequently on display in our society, that leads to a system where there is far too much work for the prosecution side of the system to handle without forcing plea deals. I guess what it boils down to is this is not the battle I'd chose to fight to in order to fix the system.

Also, all too often these types of parties end up with a participant dead from the results of drinking too much. Then people bitch at the "system" that didn't do anything.