Posted on 11/26/2015 8:08:37 AM PST by Kaslin
“Then how should nonviolent offenders be punished?”
1. Take their stuff. If they have a pot to piss in, take it and auction it. BUT ONLY as part of a judicial process.
2. Fines and restitution.
3. Electronic handcuffs, curfew, electronic monitoring, community service, chain gangs.
4. Consider a return to corporal punishment.
5. Start thinking real hard about what should and should not be felonious conduct.
I grew up around an addicted family member. I’m well aware that the family gets screwed. In spades.
That said, the state has done zip to fix addiction other than squander your and my dollars, in large amounts, to implement judicial “solutions” that don’t work. But it will continue because it’s profitable. Far more profitable than locking up violent felons. We’re awash in convicted sex offenders who are “safe” to have in our neighborhoods. We’re awash in violent illegal aliens. But by gosh we use precious and limited jail space for drunks and junkies.
And that needs to change. Any ideas as how that can come about?
Thank you for that. I like good news.
As always when there is a question of the interaction of God and a large group of people, the change has to be allowed within the heart of the people.
In a few decades of bible studies I have seen some patterns in how this happens. On earth it looks like down, up, down, up, down, up etc. Evangelism breaks out and is accepted. Blessings follow. Eventually a new generation, if not the directly blessed generation itself, will assume they deserve all this good stuff rather than it having been gifted by God to an undeserving humanity, they congratulate themselves for it, and down things go again.
I wouldn’t rule out being near the end of a down and ready for another up at this point. All concerned people could certainly do worse than to pray to the Lord and invite it. However when invited, it helps if they are beginning to make room in their hearts for it too. Jesus will help in the clean up job, but you have to be willing to ask Him in when He shows up with the offer.
Funny thing, God has a way of mirroring our attitudes towards others, even the bad sinners, towards us. We might not sin that bad... yet. But that is one movement of the grace of God away. We should be ready to declare, along with the patriot who just got a parking ticket, that it’s absolutely fair even though we had no idea we would slip that bad when it happened.
Thanks. I hadn’t expected a religious explanation, but welcome it.
On thst note, I’m going back to family and spend some time reading the Torah. God Bless.
The Law (Noahide or Mosaic) never could or did stand alone to benefit a sinful people. It can only result in a downward spiral of failures and a damnation end without the presence of a merciful Christ, the divine sin bearer.
This is why Christianity was such an “AHA!” moment for the world. It revealed what thinking people always knew made sense, but could never see. Jesus is “implementation details” — as it turns out, mightily important in the story, but if one never acknowledges the need for the Christ, then the New Testament role for Jesus can’t make sense to one either.
Substance abuse is not the equivalent of political or religious liberty.
The absence of nanny government is an important element in fomenting religious and political liberty.
The absence of law and order and the proliferation of stoners creates a society unfit for decent people to live in.
Amen! The less we spend on ANY drug users, addicted or not, the better.
There is no reason to expect a "proliferation of stoners" - the end of Prohibition didn't result in a proliferation of drunks.
Only because it coincided with the Depression- no money to buy alcohol.
Alcohol is very cheap...if you know how to make it. It’s the taxes and marketing that jack up the price.
Only because it coincided with the Depression- no money to buy alcohol.
I know of no evidence for a proliferation of drunks at the end of the Depression, either.
World War II... And it is not until afterward that alcohol use returned to its pre-Prohibition level.
Cheap doesn’t make something right.
And even then (or now), did it constitute a proliferation of drunks?
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