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September 15, 2019, 12:19 AM | #26 |
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These are just my own personal opinions and observations.
There are way too many facets to the problem than we have bandwidth for and not one can take all the blame and not all can take any of them blame separately, but conjoin them together and anything is possible. I have an older brother that is a retired clinical psychologist and we have debated this many evenings. Mental illness comes in many forms and levels, just take depression for one example. Then there are addictions which run from gambling to sex to just plain adrenaline junkies. Then we can add emotional disorders which too run the gamut. Finally add Mental disorder with an emotional disorder and you find a whole new can of worms. Drug addiction is a separate issue by itself and again add any of the above and then what? I cannot prove it but at the same time I partially blame the downfall of religion in society and the rise in secularism. That in many ways we have lost out moral compass. Things like life that use to have value above all else has somehow been diminished. When I can drive down the road and watch a driver swerve to hit a turtle in the road it makes me sad. Or a step farther, in the past month I have had to steer off the hi-way twice to avoid being creamed head on and that was on a road that has a double yellow line. I just get a feeling that society as a whole has taken a sharp decline. Many people today couldn't even tell you the name of their neighbor across the street. To offer help, to a neighbor you don't know. Unheard of! Thirty years ago we didn't see the types of shooting that are happening so frequently today and yes I separate that from the inner city violence that happen nightly to me those are separate issues driven by totally different paradigms. Not that one is any less violent or meaningless than the other because they are not. Though our society and the medias treat them completely different. So just what is it that has changed in our society? It's not the guns! It's US. |
September 18, 2019, 12:20 PM | #27 |
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The reason there are more people in prison for drugs is pretty obvious. More people commit controlled substance crimes than commit violent crimes. It is a lot easier to get caught too when the offender is using drugs. Their behavior gets them noticed. As I have mentioned many times this isn't "Reefer Madness" where a few puffs of a joint turns someone in to a rapist or homicidal maniac. The killers are either high as a kite during the killing or long term habitual drug users. But keep in mind that just because someone went to jail for drugs does not mean they were not committing other crimes as well. Unless you prescribe to the leftist fantasy where someone who is high most of the time, has no money, and has a $100 a day drug problem is not committing crimes to buy drugs. Even you can't be that naïve. Quote:
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Its not impossible that when a religious person "goes bad" the substance being abused is their own faith. Where is see "the downfall of religion in society and the rise in secularism" playing a part is the change in the level of belief in the surety of punishment. What I mean is, in earlier times, where more people were more strongly religious, the promise of hell and eternal damnation was a much more "real" thing to them. I think that made a difference. Today, its different. Today, with the focus on what happens now, where is the certainty of punishment? No criminal acts with the expectation of being caught, but when they are caught, what is the punishment? At one time, we, as a nation, regularly executed people convicted of capital crimes. And didn't waste much time doing it. I think that most people knowing that was going to be the result, rather than knowing that it might just possibly maybe be the result was a credible deterrent. Certainly not for everyone, nothing is. Its not something there's any way to measure, but I think it was significant. Sanctuary city?? Revolving door justice system?? Lack of morality?? Substance abuse?? They're all in the mix, along with lots of other things. I think the ideal of "better a dozen guilty men go free than one innocent man go to jail" is a fine and noble sounding ideal. I'd be very much in favor of that, if I were the one innocent man. Come to think of it, I'd be very much in favor of that if I were a guilty man, too... Downside, as I see it, is that seems to leave a lot of guilty men on our streets when they ought to be in prison. There is a cost to safety, and it must be paid in many different kinds of coin. If you aren't willing to pay all of it, you won't get safety, only the illusion of it, if that.
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