Termyn8or
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thompson, I think thee missed it, that was sarcasm I think, actually I HOPE !
Here is the problem. The main root of the problem. We have more criminals here.
Now let's quick get straight on my position here. There should be no drug laws, except as in the case of administering them to another. When a doctor writes a prescription there must be culpability, but I should be able to just go get any drug I decide I want or need.
So if we let all the drug dealers out there will still be a hell of alot of people locked up. We still have plenty of murderers and rapists here. And thieves.
Don't even get me started on thieves, almost everyone has stolen something at least once. Many people make a habit out of it. Many do not get caught for a long time. And some, the lucky ones, some of them I know personally, stopped before the odds caught up with them. But many don't. They of course wind up behind bars. The ones who stopped in time are sitting at bars instead.
You take our youth in this country and interact with them, you will find many are about as sharp as a bowling ball. Let me tell you, if you are smart enough to steal and get away with it long term, you are smart enough to work and make a good living. Look at the average age of those who become incarcerated. They are at a time in life when they are grown physically, but not mentally.
First of all there is no respect for another's property rights, they think they can just take what they want. Another given is that they don't think they will get caught, but are incapable of analyzing the situation correctly and possibly not do it. Last but not least, they do not even think about what will happen to them if they do get caught.
All this adds up to what happens to our younger population. Some steal to get drugs, some steal to make a living, some actually do it for sport.
Those formative years in this country are,,,,well they are fucked up. People too much want their kids to have a good time, to have fun. That is the time they need to learn values. Instead they are watching movies and playing video games. Christmas and birthdays teach them to be materialistic, and they have a penchant for shiny things.
Stealing for sport ? Let me tell you about this one guy. He always ripped off the same place. He had some sort of vendetta against the owner. It was a head shop. He would go around with briefcases of jewelry, pipes, bongs and sell them. One time he finally got something of value, a gun, he threw it away. There is something wrong with this guy's brain.
There is something wrong with alot of people's brains. Although I do not hang with that guy at all anymore, he was named Trinketina. A joke, but an appropriate one. This guy has been in and out of the joint so many times they just stamp his card. The only useful thing he stole other than money is a bunch of steaks from a restaurant. A long time ago he stayed with me for a short time. He's got these steaks and he almost got me busted with him.
I can understand his extreme morality because of not paying me any rent he wanted to contribute, but he got the damn steaks from the restaurant in the same building ! Then the fuckhead breaks into the rental office and makes off with not only the cash, THE CHECKS. He gives me a bunch of money, and then my rent check I had written a few days before ! I looked at him and said "Are you fucking crazy ?". I had to throw him out.
Got my key back all that, but not too long later my apartment got broken into and they stole my stereo, guitar and a few other things. The doorjamb was pried, the wood damaged, and there was the evidence. A screwdriver. But the twist is that it was my screwdriver and came from inside the apartment. Upon further examination, the damage caused was not able to allow the lock to be jimmied.
He wound up in prison, and if he didn't I probably would have kicked his ass. I did not charge the guy a dime for living there. I supplied all the food, drugs and beer. He did not need to steal. Here I think I am helping a brother out and he jeopardizes me in that way, and stealing from the rental office is pretty much shitting where you eat.
I call myself a sociopath, but I was never like this guy. It's like a disease. It did not all go for drugs, he also wanted a nice jacket, this and that.
And with no skills how else was he to get what he wanted ?
There is a factor in our society also, that makes young guys horny but does so before they have any great degree of self control. Having sex too young is actually sociopathy, but rapists have it in spades. The need is so great that they discard any human thoughts or feelings to get what they want. They will objectify a certain Woman and lay in wait to catch her. Again they, for some stupid reason, think that they will not get caught, and in that case, the need is so great that the consequences do not matter.
Object. You know that word has many meanings, and by that I don't mean the definitions of different objects. "The object of your desire", "Objectification". People are obsessed with objects. In fact I believe the word obsession shares roots with the word object. There is a good reason for that apparently.
So on the whole I agree that we do lock up the wrong people, but I have to admit that we lock up the right people as well. It is all going downhill. Childrearing seems to be a thing of the past. Just let them play, the schools will take care of the teaching. That attitude over the last few generations has led to this.
And I do not think there is any easy way out. Got any ideas ?
T
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RE: US is the world's #1 incarcerator - 
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You're proud of having a murder rate less than the countries on that list? However, you do have the highest murder rate in the developed world
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