Credit where credit is due.

It's come to my attention, through my own thoughts, that I never give credit for the pictures I use. While it's not a problem when my blog is in it's infancy, if I do ever start to get some notoriety (when people start sharing...) it will begin to increase in need.

So I'm going through and adding credits for all the pictures I've used over the next while. No major changes will be made, except for little bits at the bottom. If I haven't credited you for a photo I've used that belongs to you, contact me, and I'll get straight on it! It's not really a blog, I was just making people aware of that. NAUGHTY ALLAN.

Ok, take it easy! Remember: think about everything. If you can't be bothered to think, trust only those who are qualified to think. Politicians and religious leaders are not qualified. Neither are our parents. Unless our parents happen to be philosophers or scientists...

Justice - A nice fairy tale?

Clip Art: Best thing since art?

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So this is the topic of Today's blog - The justice system.

A lot of you who know me, will know that this is something that I think about, whether or not there is justice, and whether or not the methods we use to instill our morality is appropriate. I've done a lot of thunking lately, and I think I'm ready to share.

This all stems from paedophillia. without incriminating myself, I am very interested in the Child Crime phenomena that sweeps through our society. I have been for quite a while. I have a couple of blogs actually saved in my drafts that I just haven't had the balls to post yet, plus, they aren't quite done. Why do I have such an interest? Because it's complete and utter bullshit. That's why.

My interest started, quite appropriately, when I was a lad. I was quite sexually active, through most of my life. I remember getting exited upon finding an Ann Summers catalogue (Google Chrome thinks this is the wrong spelling, someone verify?), and bringing it into school to show my friends... When I was 5. I remember my first erection, around the age of 12 or 13, stumbling upon a family friends copies of Men's Magazine or some shit, FHM might be the one to be honest, and seeing Emma Bunton (Baby Spice) in a state of undress, and being perplexed by the occurance (mostly due to the fact it really made me need a wee, and I couldn't fucking piss for the life of me. /man trouble), and I mean, I fancied the pants off of Emma Bunton. I'd get with her friends, if you know what I mean!

Seriously, like.. Would you not just?!

This level of early sexual interest sparked in me a level of sexual interest. I began to view porn (magazines under the bridge near my house) before moving on to the heavier shit (the internet, Googeling "Britney Spears Fake Nacked" I kid you not) and being exposed to more porn than a 14 year old boy should have access to... within the constraints of before my parents get home. But being 14, I was interested in 14 year old girls... And so you can see why I became interested in the law around paedophilia.

To me, the idea of child porn was such a... grey area. I mean, for starters, we can have sex at 16. But you can't take photographs of her until she is 18? That's weird. And even still, that's not regular throughout the world, there are all sorts of ages of consent all over the world, as outlined in a previous blog. So why then such hysteria?

As I've aged, I've matured into a sort of understanding... There is no logic to it. We all agree that crimes against children are wrong, because we all agree that crimes are wrong, and children are innocent and pure, so to crime against innocence makes it even worse. But what does that say to poor old Margret? 87 years old and murdered cold blooded by her neighbour, because he's a psychopath? I mean, she lived a good life, a fictional one, but a good fictional life, she'd had her years, but her children are still alive, and they never got the chance to say goodbye. Jump down the country, we have Toby, a 15 year old boy who's being fondled by an uncle. He's not particularly violent, just overly loving. Toby's uncle will spend years and years in jail, and be stuck on a list for the rest of his life, outcast from society. Margret's neighbour will maybe get life, depending on if it's a crime of passion or not. How is that fair? On a note, how can we qualify what crime is worse than others? Is it possible? The question stands: Is there absolute morality?

Personally, I would argue that there is not, but that there should be. To me, the idea of subjective morality is messy at best. To say that one person's crime means less than another persons, for such trivial matters as race, or age, is absolute nonsense. It sickens me. But there is a definite distinction between crimes. I wouldn't say that stealing an orange from Tesco was even a crime, but it is theft, by the definition of the law, and I certainly wouldn't place that in the category with Margret or Toby. So what is my answer?

First allow me to touch upon the way we deal with crimes, as I think this will help me explain. Currently, our process is punishment, by removing a persons freedom. Kind of a pointless punishment, when you think about what freedom means. To have freedom, is to do what we want. But we can't do what we want. We have laws. So, in essence, the punishment for doing what we want is not being allowed to do what we want. Oh, and we have to not do what we want with a higher concentration of unsavoury characters, or rather, not do what we want with people who also did what they want when they shouldn't have. Are we following? This is meant to be helping to explain...

Hey, ese! Sleep over!

We base our system of enforcing morality on fear. We terrorise people into doing what we want. "Do as we say, or you'll get locked away." We are given rules to follow, and if we don't, we're punished. So we better do them, unless we want punishing! But is that right? Is terrorism OK, so long as it's for the right cause? And how do we define the cause? Of course, the opposite of this, where doing good is rewarded, isn't much better off. That's how we get problems of entitlement that we are already presented with, where someone will do good and expect reward. Essentially, no one does good because it's good. They do good, because they have to. What's the point of good if it's just because we have to?

In evolution, we have a need for morals. We do bad things, the group shuns us, and out we go into the harsh, dangerous wilderness, alone. So we, quite quickly, develop a sense of helpful behaviours, so to speak: "If I do that, will I piss people off?" Which makes sense. But we've unfortunately moved past that. We no longer have dangerous wildernesses. We no longer face beasts or foes. We ourselves are our only danger. So we have justice systems to make sure we have danger.

She's just so pretty! Why is she so
anonymous nowadays? She's had a kid!

So what of the answer? Well, that's just it. I don't yet have it. I have ideas, but I don't have anything concrete. What I will say, categorically, is capital punishment is not the way forward. I think what I will do is address seperate means of punishment in their own blogs. This is too word-some.

So, to sum up this long and necessary essay, justice in the sense that we have it is entirely flawed, but I simply don't yet have the answers. I will keep looking, but I haven't found anything that really works. What I'm going to do, over the course of next month or something, is have a look into the psychology of following rules, and morality, and see what strikes me. So until next time, I want to hear your thoughts! I will be changing the poll on the page, and I want to see your responses, so get on that! And, as always, share this amongst people who would be interested! The larger scope I have, the bigger a difference we can make. And most importantly, USE THE COMMENTS! I want to hear your views! I don't just do this shit because I can, I'm not simply some attention seeking want to be (that's right, grammar bitchez!), I do this because I want to find what works, I want to fix the world, once problem at a time. And of course, you being part of the world, you're part of the solution.

Take it easy people! The only way they can work, is by making you afraid. If you're not afraid, they lose.