I don't propose to create one, nor do I have the means to find the one that is true. But I think it will happen, as long as we remain open to the possibility. Which is why I always object, swiftly and vocally, to any attempt to close that possibility off; and it always gets me into trouble...
That is an interesting piece that you link to. I don't propose to address it, partly because I'm completely fed up at the moment with trying to wade through this stuff and partly because I don't think anything I could say would be heard. I have theories and analogies, but the author would rule those out before I had even finished typing as ad hoc, or simply made up to try to answer the question (why else would you make up a theory?), so it isn't worth bothering. He's happy. Why try to spoil that?
And I didn't say "just" try to make people believe crime doesn't pay; but police and courts are efficient in inverse proportion to the number of people committing crimes, so any measure that reduces that number, without actually affecting the freedom of people in general to live within the law as they choose, is fine with me. "Efficient police and courts" sounds innocuous enough, but the point could be stretched to a truly horrendous degree; and would be, if that were all keeping people from becoming criminals.
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Date: 2008-09-23 01:54 pm (UTC)That is an interesting piece that you link to. I don't propose to address it, partly because I'm completely fed up at the moment with trying to wade through this stuff and partly because I don't think anything I could say would be heard. I have theories and analogies, but the author would rule those out before I had even finished typing as ad hoc, or simply made up to try to answer the question (why else would you make up a theory?), so it isn't worth bothering. He's happy. Why try to spoil that?
And I didn't say "just" try to make people believe crime doesn't pay; but police and courts are efficient in inverse proportion to the number of people committing crimes, so any measure that reduces that number, without actually affecting the freedom of people in general to live within the law as they choose, is fine with me. "Efficient police and courts" sounds innocuous enough, but the point could be stretched to a truly horrendous degree; and would be, if that were all keeping people from becoming criminals.