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We should strive for a world where we can cure psychopaths. Mental health isn't magic. Everyone can be rehabilitated if we figure out how.
I agree. But we are still left with the here and now and a situation that we didn't ask to be in, that we (as a whole) are forced into.
Believe me, I think the first job of government, everyday, is to pass objective rationalization for their continued existence. I am beyond critical as a default. Criticism of authority is fundamental to any and all rights of free people. Corruption of those that make up the system should be punished at exponential rates. A police officer commiting a crime should be handled like a criminal, not an officer. Should steps be taken to mitigate and help the masses, based off medical expert advice? Absolutely, whole-heartedly.
I understand the arguments against capital punishment and at my core i agree, but in the end we still have this shit show we didn't want to be in to deal with. In an analogy, I don't think blaming the garbage collectors will make people produce less garbage. Let's do the things to fix it, across the board, but that doesn't mean leaving the obvious garbage out to rot and fester in the street.
Your analogy doesn't make sense because our governments create much of the crime they arrest people for lol
I feel like you understand what I'm saying and are just being facetious.
Putting all the moral positions aside, at the end of the day, we are stuck in this situation. That's the reality and it has to be dealt with, like it or not.
No, I'm being serious. What you're saying is that we shouldn't blame the government (the garbage collectors) because it won't fix crime (make people produce less garbage). I think that's absurd. We can, in fact, blame them for creating crime.
No I'm saying that crime exists, period. With or without government, it doesn't matter, we are born with an internal sense of justice. We know if we've been wronged even before we can walk or talk.
Somebody has to deal with it. You can pick a side politically or eschew it completely favoring anarchy, that's your decision, but SOMEBODY HAS TO DEAL WITH IT.
Here's a better question, let's say the government falls tomorrow. America's out of money, cops, military, Congress, everyone's disbanded.
Do you think there's gonna be less killing then?
I agree with you that government can in fact create crime, and I don't mean by just passing legislation, but actual unethical actions - and that's not to go into war crimes or crimes against humanity.
Fuck i contend the existence of poverty is a crime against humanity.
So here we are at this question. This or that. We can be critical of government for its punishment focused approach to crime, rightfully so, but absent government, does crime disappear? would theft, rape or murder decrease or increase?
I say they'd increase, at least for the initial decade. We're a long way away from subsistence farming, and not necessarily in a good way. In a prolonged grid down environment it's expected 90% perish in the first year. How far would you go to get your family medicine? Cuz if my kid needs meds and the only way I can get them is through other people, well, that's just what I gotta do then. It's not even a decision.
What? I only meant that a different government would produce less crime, and that with the right combination of policies crime could be either vastly reduced or totally eliminated. I'm not an anarchist lol