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Forum: General
Thread (Discussion): Do the registries work?
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Message 174557 (In Reply to Message 174294)
Posted by Quest
on Mar 24, 2006 01:01 AM | Also by Quest
| Gender: Male,
Age Bracket: 50 - 59,
State: Minnesota,
Country: United States |
The only one who can determine your fate is you. Stating that the public, the registry, or anything else is holding you back is just an excuse, and a weak one at that.
That's an attitude and an idea that I wish was based in reality. I would have agreed with you completely three years ago. Now I guess I have crossed over to the relative morality crowd. Though I am one of the few who will admit it and argue it's merits.
We have a huge problem with crime in this country. Most of it is in inner cities among poor neighborhoods. Our morality is based on something biological called reciprocal altruism. Men are of high moral fiber when in the company of reciprocating peers. It is understood that you reap what sow. Take men out of this context and say put them in charge of a middle eastern prison at wartime and another sort of animal emerges. Put them in inner cities where 70% of them see someone shot to death before age ten and the only attainable working trade with unlimited potential is cocaine salesman and a different animal emerges. One who will shoot you to death with little conscience.
Take away, on purpose, a man's hope or judge him too harshly for past deeds and you will find that you are no longer a reciprocating, altruistic member of their tribe . You are now the enemy.
But those with power kill those without when they misbehave unless of coarse they allow themselves to be snuck up on. Prisons are costly and filling up and the legal system is about to snap like a twig under the strain of new sex and drug laws. Snap, there goes your power.
Real solutions and in my opinion real morality lies in altruism and peacemaking. Sharing, to a point, what we harvest and seeing that no man is without hope will eliminate the need for escalating, costly power. The trick is to make everyone a potential contributor and reaper. Those with power can make a good profit and new markets if they take care of the potential of those without.
Men who fall to the side of moral judmentalism and the application of escalating power have statues built of them which one day will be toppled by those on the low totem.
It's the nature of the beast.
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Message 174294
Posted by LockEmUp
on Mar 04, 2006 03:58 PM | Also by LockEmUp
| Gender: Male,
Age Bracket: 40 - 49,
State: New Jersey,
Country: United States |
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174097, prozac, Mar 01, 2006 11:57 PM
174108, orolan, Mar 02, 2006 03:27 AM
174499, Susie63, Mar 16, 2006 02:22 PM
174116, Navigatr1, Mar 02, 2006 03:52 AM
174120, meli, Mar 02, 2006 04:22 AM
174131, rodsmith, Mar 02, 2006 06:01 AM [meli]
174149, orolan, Mar 02, 2006 02:04 PM
174153, Valerie, Mar 02, 2006 02:34 PM
174189, 1dadof5, Mar 03, 2006 08:33 AM [meli]
174195, LockEmUp, Mar 03, 2006 02:39 PM
174201, orolan, Mar 03, 2006 06:41 PM
174227, LockEmUp, Mar 03, 2006 10:40 PM
174284, Valerie, Mar 04, 2006 02:26 PM
174310, prozac, Mar 04, 2006 09:19 PM
174327, Pending Further Review
174331, Pending Further Review
174381, Pending Further Review
174245, Quest, Mar 04, 2006 01:29 AM [time to quit pretending]
174294, LockEmUp, Mar 04, 2006 03:58 PM
174364, Pending Further Review
174373, Pending Further Review
174407, Pending Further Review
174557, Quest, Mar 24, 2006 01:01 AM
174569, orolan, Mar 24, 2006 02:20 PM
174614, Pending Further Review
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