Why is it anytime a famous person suffers a mental breakdown or an addiction to something, we have all these people talking about how such and such a person *cough* brittneyspears *cough* should be forced to get help or something cause they’re a danger to themselves and\or others. Yet we(as a nation) let that sick bastard Reagan get away with forcing all the insane out of asylums and onto the streets.
Ok that was a most slanted paragraph. The nuances weren’t there. I’m sure are factors influencing both sides. Now here’s another one.
How can we as a society be (generally) for having people get help for their addictions, insanities and be against drug abuse, yet oppose tax funded rehab centers and mental health treatment facilities. We are a supposedly compassionate nation, but we can’t bring ourselves to provide safe centers for addicts when they are incapacitated by drug use. Safe centers which would help prevent the spread of disease and provide a vehicle to help people enter rehab. Instead we throw these people into over crowded prisons half the time or just let them rot the other half. Our penal system only serves to punish people then punish them some more(the rest of their lives in some cases) for their crimes. Punishments which don’t serve to help our society. Punishments which don’t help people with the problems that drove them to the state they reached. Seriously…. WHAT THE FUCK!
Here’s a start. Legalize Drugs and Prostitution. Persecute pimps and slavers and white collar crimes harshly since these are things which are ACTIVELY attempting to undermine our society. Government corruption should be classified as treason and receive a justified death penalty, by hanging until dead. Punish small scale thievery and other such crimes with mandatory education and job placement into apprenticeship programs. Actions resulting in harm or death on a small scale through negligence should result in sentences wherein the people responsible shall work to repay and recompense the people affected by their actions. This can involve monetary compensation, reasonable periods of limited freedoms and counseling of the person involved. I would pretty much rank anything up to second degree murder into this category.
Rape: Castration and counseling. We just need to clip the nerves that let them get it up. False accusations of rape…. 25 years in a prison. You tried to game the system fuck you. Ok maybe this is a bit harsh but really if you rape someone and it’s provable… why should you get to keep your sexual toy? But anyone who attempts to falsely accuse someone of rape to get back at them should be hit with a clue bat.
First Degree Murder, Serial killers, Pathological willingness to kill without cause: Counseling and then placement into life sentences if they are found to be irreparable.
Sure there are human problems to all this but there is no reason not to have sane and logical methods and motivations to our justice system.
Eh Fuck it, We’re probably doomed.