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| I don't want skittles to sue me, so have this picture |
This is my 30th post! Let's celebrate with skittles, because I have skittles!
Down to business, this is serious stuff here.
I'm gonna give you two scenarios, I'm not gonna waste time writing this one, it's a pretty straight forward hypothesis I want to present, and dwindling on it will just be pedantic.
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| Guantanamo Bay, America's best example of why they're idiots. |
2) You're a man, late teens, early 20's. You've never got on well with your parents, were popular at school, but never did well in the lessons. You were a difficult child, always acting out, probably some form of primitive attention effort, like shouting out, or cracking jokes. Without sufficient grades, you're practically unemployable, perhaps you didn't do very well at all in school and got expelled, or faced repeated suspensions, and so never got the proper teaching. With no future prospects, the only way forward for you is crime. Society has failed you, so why work for society? You start with petty theft from supermarkets, maybe burgle a house, and then you mug someone. They don't co-operate fast enough, you panic, and stab them. The judge feels he should make an example of you, because you fit the standard criminal model, or maybe he just wasn't feeling lenient. He gives you the maximum sentence, so you're facing 12 years in prison. This time, the prison shows you kindness. The guards are fair, the cells aren't concrete boxes filled with murderers and rapists. They're people who have been failed by the society they were promised would help them. You act out while in prison, and the reprimand you, but you're not facing extra time. They understand you have difficulties with society. They can see that you're troubled. They help you. By 5 years, you're ready to be integrated back into society again, they get you a part time job doing menial work, and you're glad to be helpful, though you do hate the work, because it's hard-labour. You re-offend, but you're not thrown back in the slammer, you're assisted once more, they show you what you did wrong, they talk through why you did it. It's a hard road, but of course it is. It's hard for some people to adjust. The world is a cruel place, but the government that promised to protect you is actually there for you. You lose your desire to damage the world, you're learning how to function in the world, you're being taught how to function.You're shown kindness, and although you're at first skeptical, down the line, after the time and hard work is placed in you, your less likely to reoffend. Hard work isn't as hard work, drugs don't have the same appeal, and you're a little bit ashamed of the life you lived before. You served your time, you made your amends, but more importantly, society made it's amends.
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| I'd be happy to live in that. |
That's how it could be. There's jobs to be created in that. It's more expensive, perhaps, but it's a better way of doing it. It's the right way of doing things. All too often I see people complaining that parents aren't taking responsibility, or people aren't taking responsibility, well it's about time the government took responsibility.
I want to hear your views on this, I want to see some comments, and more importantly, some shares. It's tough, of course it's tough, but is the way we're doing it now really better? Is it not worth the hassle if we can limit the crime?
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