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I found myself mulling over a discussion in our class in History and Moral Philosophy. Mr Dubois was talking about the disorders that preceded the breakup of the North American republic, back in the XXth century. According to him, there was a time just before they went down the drain when such crimes as Dillinger's were as common as dog-fights. The Terror had not been just in North America--Russia and the British Isles had it, too, as well as other places. But it reaches its peak in North America shortly before things went to pieces.
"Law-abiding people," Dubois had told us, "hardly dared go into a public park at night. To do so was to risk attack by wolf packs .....
Nor were parks the only places parks the only places--these things happened also on the streets in daylight, on school grounds, even inside school buildings. But parks were so notoriously unsafe that honest people stayed clear of them after dark."
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"They had many more police than we have. And more courts. All overworked."
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"Many. I'm raising a dachshund now--by your methods. Let's get back to those juvenile criminals. The most vicious averaged somewhat younger than you here in this class...and they often started their lawless careers much younger. Let us never forget that puppy. These children were often caught; police arrested batches each day. Were they scolded? Yes, often scathingly. Were their noses rubbed in it? Rarely. News organs and officials usually kept their names secret--in many places the law so required for criminals under eighteen. Were they spanked? Indeed not! Many had never been spanked even as small children; there was a widespread belief that spanking, or any punishment involving pain, did a child permanent psychic damage."
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"As for 'unusual,' punishment must be unusual or it serves no purpose." He then pointed his stump at another boy. "What would happen if a puppy were spanked every hour?"
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"Never mind. Long enough. It means that such punishment is so unusual as to be significant, to deter, to instruct. Back to these young criminals--They probably were not spanked as babies; they certainly were not flogged for their crimes. The usual sequence was: for a first offense, a warning--a scolding, often without trial. After several offenses a sentence of confinement but with sentence suspended and the younger placed on probation. A boy might be arrested many times and convicted several times before he was punished--and then it would be merely confinement, with others like him from whom he learned still more criminal habits. If he kept out of major trouble while confined, he could usually evade most of even that mild punishment, be given probation--'paroled' in the jargon of the times.
"This incredible sequence could go on for years while his crimes increased in frequency and viciousness, with no punishment whatever save rare dull-but-comfortable confinements.
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He singled me out again. "Suppose you merely scolded your puppy, never punished him, let him go on making messes in the house...and occasionally locked him up in an outbuilding but soon let him back into the house with a warning not to do it again. Then one day you notice that he is now a grown dog and still not housebroken--whereupon you whip out a gun and shoot him dead. Comment, please?"
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"I don't know," he had answered grimly, "except that the time-tested method of instilling social virtue and respect for law in the minds of the young did not appeal to pre-scientific pseudo-professional class who called themselves 'social workers' or sometimes 'child psychologists.' It was too simple for them, apparently, since anybody could do it, using only the patience and firmness needed in training a puppy. I have sometimes wondered if they cherished a vested interest in disorder--but that is unlikely; adults almost always act from conscious 'highest motives' no matter what their behavior."
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"I agree. Young lady, the tragic wrongness of what those well-meaning people did, contrasted with what they thought they were doing, going very deep. They had no scientific theory of morals. They did have a theory of morals and they tried to live by it (I should not have sneered at their motives), but their theory was wrong--half of it fuzzy-headed wishful thinking, half of it rationalized charlatanry. The more earnest they were, the farther it led them astray. You see, they assumed that Man has a moral instinct."
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"These juvenile criminals hit a low level. Born with only the instinct for survival, the highest morality they achieved was a shaky loyalty to a peer group, a street gang. But the do-gooders attempted to 'appeal to their better natures,' to 'reach them,' to 'spark their moral sense.' Tosh! They had no 'better natures'; experience taught them that what they were doing was the way to survive. A puppy never got his spanking; therefore what he did with pleasure and success must be 'moral.'
"The basis of all morality is duty, a concept with the same relation to group the self-interest has to individual. Nobody preached duty to these kids in a way they could understand--that is, with spanking. But the society they were in told them endlessly about their 'rights'.
"The results should have been predictable, since a human being has no natural rights of any nature."
Mr. Dubois had paused. Somebody took the bait. "Sir? How about 'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness'?"
"Ah, yes, the 'unalienable rights.' Each year someone quotes that magnificent poetry. Life? What 'right' to life has a man who is drowning in the Pacific? The ocean will not hearken his cries. What 'right' to life has a man who must die if he is to save his children? If he chooses to save his own life, does he do so as a matter of 'right'?
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Liberty is never unalienable; it must be redeemed regularly with the blood of patriots or it always vanishes. Of all the so-called natural human rights that have ever been invented, liberty is least likely to be cheap and is never free of cost.
The cure is simple, yet difficult. It starts with educating the youth, the generations before, that have already been indoctrinated with this cancer; they are lost. We can fix the problem, which starts with the purging of liberal thought from schools, and instilling the younger generations with true critical thinking.
Proof of this violence and anger can be found in the comments below.....
The ideology you just promoted is the definition of extremism, eradicating the competition and snuffing out their existence in favor of your own ideology and existence.
To be an American, you must have American culture
We cannot cooperate, if our values and ideals, if our basic ideological beliefs are diametrically opposed.
I'm not advocating to go back to religious indoctrination, nor am I proposing we kill off those who disagree. A sense of unity comes from the cohesiveness of a culture. We cannot have differing cultures, and expect to cooperate completely if we are to succeed.
When oppressive ideologies, such as liberalism or religious zealotry infect our thought, it destroys what we have built.
We cannot cooperate, if our values and ideals, if our basic ideological beliefs are diametrically opposed.
originally posted by: ColaTesla
a reply to: olaru12
Diversity is what made America great
100% correct, Then why are liberals trying to stamp out diversity? Look at what's happening in europe, it is a systematic removal of all diversity that's occurring there.