Archive for October, 2010

Question: Anyone get that we are all in this together as far as being lib or con or even black or white?
Racism is something that MOST (not all) black people are vigilant of. Believe me I know.

Look, I get that being a white person doesn’t automatically grant you with clean neighborhoods that have relatively low crime rates. Hell, if you talk to most black people from the really crappy neighborhoods they will tell you that they don’t blame anyone for wanting to move away from the kind of black people that litter, deal drugs, engage in violence and steal all the time. They wish they could move away from them too.

You see, it’s hard to talk the most deviant people out of committing crimes because they could really give a crap. Not that they are that selfish, they just have it in their heads that there is no way out of the crappy life they’ve known all their life. Most guys in gangs defy cops to shoot them dead b/c all the cop would be doing is ending their miserable lives.

You see, if you ever try and tell an obese person to eat right and exercise for their own good, all they would think to themselves is “if it were that easy for me to do so, I wouldn’t be obese”. Most criminals think the same way. They don’t like being criminals, they just don’t believe there is any real way to turn their life around. At the end of the day, we will pay more for our own health insurance for every obese person who is expensive to keep alive. We will also pay more in taxes to arm police forces and build prisons to keep the deviant elements of society away from our families. Problem is, we can’t pay enough. Soon the criminals will sell more drugs to kids in the suburbs and have an impact on culture one way or another.

In other words, the more you pretend that the hopeless in society are going to have to save themselves b/c no one else can do it for them, the more the hopeless and downtrodden may grow in numbers and become more harmful to you.

I’m not really making excuses for anyone (although some people will swear that I am). I just think every guy on the street corner is a potential cog or sprocket in the great American machine. Every drug dealer is a potential sales person or recruiter. Every goon is a potential soldier in the marine corp and every thief is a potential covert agent. And all of these people would do that stuff, if they saw a way to get there, but all they see is despair. I honestly am not preaching that the Federal government should be the ones to help them get there. Maybe it’s God or some business enterprise that profits from helping others. Perhaps it’s just one smart guy who figures out a way.
It makes me mad to sympathize with people that just do what they want and try to make life better for them. I just don’t know that deviant people are just like me, but simply do what they want.

I’m just saying that we can’t keep saying “those people” or as I put it, “the criminals”. Those people are potentially our kids. The criminals could have been us. Call me overly optimistic and even preachy, but I really do think that there is a way for the most conservative person in middle America can have their way and the inner city minority can have his way too. I think it’s all about mediating a solution to find what both parties want. I don’t think that solution is taking money from the con and giving it to some useless program. I also don’t think that it’s letting poor people sink or swim. But, I do think that as a prerequisite to find a solution, we first must realize that we’re all in the same boat. That we really are the same. I hear people say that we’re all the same in the eyes of God, but then only want their money to go to building prisons and the military. That makes no sense to me.

Anyone who read all of this, can I get your opinion?
ruth: These are your words: That culture needs to be changed, not protected and pandered to for votes.

I agree completely with them. Do you know anyone trying to change that culture? I know plenty of people pointing fingers, but I don’t know many people trying to change a culture.
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Best answer:

Answer by Bob G
Where you are wrong is that every drug dealer, every goon, and every other street thug who thinks victimizing people for their own personal gain is excusable for any reason is wrong and deserves to be locked up.