innoflash
7 Answers
ed shank
Don't recall where I heard this but it does make sense. Crime is the biggest industry in this country. When you take into account all the satellite industries involved such as handcuffs, uniforms, cars, guards, Lawyers and the list goes on and on. Again I don't recall the exact number of people these vendors employ, but it was a very, very high number. I guess Crime "is" good for the economy.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 10 | |
robertgrist
Back when theft was a common method of paying the rent and buying groceries for myself and friends, we considered our actions as" testers of insurance company honesty", rather than criminals. We never stole from the poor or families directly. Some thieves give themselves integrity by twisting their motives like this so they can see themselves as providing a public service rather than accepting guilt for their crime. Rob in Hood…was a crime in King Arthur’s day….that is wearing a hood over one’s face when committing a crime to conceal one’s idenity. Of course the legend commuted guilt to the Sheriff for being a robber baron and Robin Hood as the hero who shared wealth with the disenfranchised victums of the sheriff. It is easy to spin motives for behavior that is criminal in law. If enough people do it then the behavior may not be viewed as a crime. That’s the hard way to make changes in the law.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 7 | |
Shootah
Bob/PKB
A truly successful functioning society would be free of crime and deviance. I think they are more evidence of a dysfunctional society. Crime and deviance should never be considered acceptable as part of a "properly" functioning society.
Oh course, that society would have everyone employed in work in which they excelled, with relationships that were committed and children who were secure in the promise their parents loved each other and them!
| 12 years ago. Rating: 6 | |
I have a son who has been in jail since 3/11 with no end in sight. I have another son who missed prison time by being able to serve only a couple months in county jail.
They made their mistakes, and hopefully they won't make those mistakes again, ever. I would really like a world where my sons would have had no need or desire to do the things they did. No excuses.
INNOFLASH: If people don't have criminal and deviant behavior, we don't have anything for the police to do and the jails and prisons wouldn't function??? That would be the day to celebrate. Empty prisons because people were being socially responsible. You are telling me people NEED to screw up so the police and jails will have something to do???
doolittle
eggplant
Exploitive concepts: Giving to receive, Gain by denying others equal treatment, give to be owed and due on their rise, Offend to oppress and give tokens on your rise, gracious gratitude to escape the effects of your own failures, Confidence and trust to inspire loyalty and to obligate them, trap to enslave. There are more?
These are part of "Harms Way" that the light of love reveals as not to do.
| 12 years ago. Rating: 2 | |
