The Days of Punishing Children Who Misbehave are Over

[Rocky17]

https://www.foxnews.com/us/no-charges-for-arrested-portland-protestors

WTF is the rule of law and the rights of those violated coming to if one can do whatever he or she wants because they feel personally persecuted for whatever, whenever?

[Legend]

People are like animals, only smarter.  We respond to positive and negative stimuli.  It used to be that, in the absence of a state of nature where stupid act meant you paid with your life, stimuli for bad behavior was the direct and expected responsibility of the parent, and then social peers, and then police, judges, etc.

Nowadays, parents are taught that their children are special and shouldn’t get negative feedback. Local laws typically reinforce this notion by frowning on such tried and true methods as corporal punishment.   That results in kids that are free to misbehave at best and full-on anti-social at worst.  As they move on to peer and social stages of control, the worst receive very little feedback.  Then, they end up in the judicial system, which is becoming more of the same.

We have confused “respect for dignity” with “tolerance for bad behavior.”  We have emphasized “rights” without emphasizing “responsibilities.”  A guy attacks a cop and gets shot.  That used to be “expected.”  Now?  It’s a tragic overuse of state power. It used to be that an attack on a cop was an attack on all of us.  Now?  Nope.  It’s an attack on oppression.

And, we will continue to reap.   If we happened to be in a societal mode without the opiate of social media and nonstop streaming of porn, movies, and video games, our murder rates would be through the roof.

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Sic transit gloria mundi (so shut up and get back to work)

[Neodymium60]

Nice summary.  And a little chilling.  Add narcotics to the mix.  And now the lawless mobs.  The new Jacobins.  Why play a violent video game when you can go live with impunity?

Lately my mind keeps going back to the Chicago lawyer and his wife in front of their home, weapons in hand, as the mob threatens.  No law enforcement anywhere.  I’m not the only one based on conversations with friends.

I think one national candidate has given her tacit approval of the behavior of that mob.

 

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