Originally posted by rcwj75
Glad you said this...might want to keep your own words close to heart when you post about the actions of 1 or 2 police officers!
Oh? And when did I do that, prey tell?
Actually though you chose to be a police officer and that choice alone opens you up to criticism based on the actions of the whole institution you chose freely to join. Skin colour, disability, poverty, are not choices.
As far as getting back to the OP. Bottom line is this...this country and world are no longer open to rome and do what we want. As stated before, there is barely anymore room...
The only reason there appears to be not much room is because of the way our system is set up. People are forced to congregate around the same area for their survival. Capitalism is what created cities. The Earth is huge, we only fill a small part of it.
It's become a violent world because again of the unfair system we live in where the majority of the world are kept in poverty. That violence is perpetuated by our media who portray it as the answer to your problems.
We don't teach kids to reason we teach then to react. Arming everyone to the teeth doesn't change the problem it ADDS TO IT.
Violence is only a part of life if you chose it to be. I have never ever felt the need to carry a gun and I live in an inner city high crime neighbourhood.
Now I know your saying guns only add to, or escilate the cycle...I disagree...a well placed round on a rapist, murderer, or robber get rid of THAT element..hence making the world safer for someone else who would of become another one of their victims.
You're missing the point. Confucius say man gets gun, other man gets bigger gun...
It's a cycle that won't end. You want your children to be
carrying bazookas? There are other ways to solve the problem of violent crime. You just want to put a band aid on it. Bail out the basement while there's holes in the roof.
The system has to change but no wants change. They want to continue in the same predictable path and stick band aids everywhere as they go.
For example, anarchists point out that by eliminating private property, crime could be reduced by about 90 percent, since about 90 percent of crime is currently motivated by evils stemming from private property such as poverty, homelessness, unemployment, and alienation. Moreover, by adopting anarchist methods of non-authoritarian child rearing and education, most of the remaining crimes could also be eliminated, because they are largely due to the anti-social, perverse, and cruel "secondary drives" that develop because of authoritarian, pleasure-negative child-rearing practices (See section J.6 -- "What methods of child rearing do anarchists advocate?")
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[edit on 25/3/2008 by ANOK]
