by mickb » 07 May 2019, 10:00 pm
Ita another indication of our society going to crap really. Once upon a time, lets say the 80's where there were only half the police per population people generally policed themselves more. Teachers whipped kids, your dad kicked the butt of the kid knocking bins over , and if some guy played up on a train or accosted women in the street he got a punch on the nose. It was like having 6 million amateur police on duty 24/7.
And it worked. Life was not a bllodbath of violence then either, it was actually less violent. Because the threat of violence and social displeasure and being marked as a trouble maker kept a lot of bullcrap from ever happening. Much like the threat of jail works as a deterrant even if you haven't been there yourself, the threat of moderate corporal summary punishment worked wonders in sorting out 90% of lifes smart asses and assholes before they ever become a problem. In the worlplace, at school, on the trai , in nightclubs, on the beach.
Then the powers that be decided on the basis of ther small percentage of people who went to far (the minority rules leftist manifesto) or actively broke the law, ALL of us should have powers of social correction removed, and all such powers should be replaced by just a few thousand police.
Police who can't be everywhere at once, and even apart from crime can't sort out smart asses at work, won't be there to stop the junky on the train spitting, have no effect on the juveniles making a mockery of the entire system with street crime.
But this is what the powers that be want. A people stripped of individual judgement, sitting around calling on the authorities to make things safe.
What really annoys me to is the increasing fashion of disenfranchisement after punishemtn. Its like a reversion to medievakl style branding for committing of crimes. The fact that crimes of passion or lack of judgement can and will follow you as a permanent record for the rest of your life. We got rid of branding people with hot irons a long time ago for the very reason one of the precepts of judicial punishment is rehabilitation, not to create a second class citizen.
At least we are not quite as bad as America yet where their ' ex-felons' have to declare their previous convictions for any job and may not be able to vote again.
What the hell happened to our society?