So creating social programs to ensure people don’t have to resort to crime and providing addiction counseling is the same thing as slavery.

ok bud.

But does it really? Sure it affects people and it makes some things easier and some things harder. Does it really create the people?

A car manufacturer sets out to manufacture cars. It has certain criteria that it must meet or else it can’t sell them. It can be held legally liable for poor design and manufacturing by someone outside of the company if it fails to do a proper job.

I’m reminded of the ridiculous statement “It takes a village.” Well if something cannot be done unless the entire village is in on it, not much of anything will ever be done. (That could be associated with those villages are very seldom respected. What with their dirt streets,
dirt floors, high disease rates, poverty, and crime.) People as individuals will have different goals. They will not all agree on procedures. They will not agree on desired outcomes.

For example those people in society who are already criminals might actually feel bad about producing people who are not criminals. People who don’t cheat might not feel good about other people ratting them out when they cheat.

Therefore, it would be silly to expect society or a village or anything else to be the determining factor in what a person turns out to be. Even loving parents do not always get the perfect children they thought they were producing.

But that’s okay because we cannot force people to be certain types of people. They have a certain degree of freedom. They can decide to do this or not to do this, to do something else. So if our goal were to eliminate criminal element? Pretty well the only way to do it would be to enslave them all — not just body but mind as well — and force them to fit in the mold that we pick out for them and cut off or squeeze out the parts that don’t fit.

And that is definitely not what American society is about. We complain when freedom is misused. We complain when people make bad decisions. We complain when people decide to prey upon others. But we would complain worse if we were completely straight jacketed.

David for Liberty

David for personal responsibility
well at least from other people

I’ll tell ya, he probably makes WAY more than I do at my job which is why he does this, I imagine. The thing he lacks that I do not is morals. If he had an ounce of them, he would choose a legal job and stop putting his life and the lives of others at risk.

That would be dumb, right?

Our society produces people. If a significant number of people in that society are resorting to crime, then maybe we should ask “why?”. What factors led to this guy reaching this point in his life, and what can we do to mitigate those problems to make sure they don’t impact other people?

At least we can depend on Cousin Bob to tell us that it’s all our fault.

David for better kinfolks