Then I guess I have no free will when I empty my S&W sigma into a criminal’s face.
"To some it will appear that I am inventing a factitious difficulty for my Conditioners. Other, more simple-minded, critics may ask, `Why should you suppose they will be such bad men?' But I am not supposing them to be bad men. They are, rather, not men (in the old sense) at all. They are, if you like, men who have sacrificed their own share in traditional humanity in order to devote themselves to the task of deciding what `Humanity' shall henceforth mean. `Good' and `bad', applied to them, are words without content: for it is from them that the content of these words is henceforward to be derived."
How many Harvard professors does it take to prove that all white gun owners should be locked up?
The first time I had my eyes opened to this sort of thing was eighth grade (1974). That was the first year they didn't give us a History class, but insteasd presented something called "social studies". It was a lot like history -- but it diverged down certain unexpected pathways.
The lesson that stuck in my mind (I believe it's a classic and well known) is the father with the sick child who cannot afford medicine. Should he break into the pharmacy and steal the medicine? Would that be an immoral act? Or -- conversely -- would it be an extremely moral act? Our teacher laid it out: your intentions are what matters. Stealing may be the right thing to do if there is a good reason why you are doing this.
From such a "lofty" moral position, there is nowhere to go but down.
The Debbul made me do it!
At one point in time a decade ago 40% of Black men had an arrest record. 60% didn’t. Some years prior it was 20-80. And some years prior to that it was 10-90.
Is this explained by genetics/heredity? by environment ... expansion of entitlement programs and government in general? Or maybe our criminal justice system is more anti-Black now than pre-civil rights?
Should the majority that are law abiding be brought down to the lowest common denominator of the law breakers?
Yes, detain them in mental hospitals for “anti-soviet attitudes”.
RE: other “causes” of criminal activity including addiction, economic deprivation, gender, and culture.
So, like Whoopi Goldberg done told us, when Roman Polanski was drugging and hosing that thirteen-year-old girl, it wasn’t his fault, and it wasn’t rape-rape?
We did a snapshot sampling of folks in our jail. Of 94 inmates that day, 84 had been previously incarcerated. Looking at their records, the 84 accounted for more than 500 incarcerations in the past decade. Of those 84, all had relatives that were also incarcerated.
Given this information, the shear costs of this criminal behavior to the individual, families and community, coupled with the intergenerational nature of the behavior, what would some alternatives be to simple incarceration to stop recidivism and keep other family members from the same culture? The current methods are not working folks and they are bankrupting the state and local governments. Also, these are very often the same families that are involved with CPS.
Herrnstein and Murray in “The Bell Curve” predicted that if current trends continue, something like this would happen.
Since single mothers in the underclass are correlated with low cognitive ability and tend to mate with other people of low cognitive ability, and because cognitive ability is to a large degree heritable and negatively correlated with aggression and criminality, as the state continues to subsidize and liberals continue to encourage underclass illegitimacy, something the authors call the “custodial state” may come to pass in which there will be something like a cradle-to-grave supervisory custiodianship administered by society over the growing underclass in order for the rest of society to protect itself from the adverse effects of this population.
This is just part and parcal of criminalizing thought. If we are born thinking that way, then when a person speaks out against those in power (D and R) it instantly brands them as “defective.”
How soon before the obama / DC country club demands a final solution?
I've known too many people who have chosen to change the way they live and act despite terrible backgrounds not to believe we all exercise a independent will. Little wonder the Scriptures say so much about guarding the heart, purifying the heart, self control and so on.
The issue of “predestination” was originated by the Greeks.
There is in fact a story about a Greek philosopher who came home unexpectedly and found his slave stealing from him. Enraged, he got his whip and began whipping the slave.
The slave cried, “Master! Master! Wait. Do you not preach predestination?!?! I was destined to steal, so why do you whip me??”
The philosopher paused, then began flogging him again, and said: “You were predestined to steal, and I was predestined to flog you”.