Im thinking we take all those Saleem - Hudson wantabe's and send them over to live at Mike's house. That way Mike can figure out the anwer to his own dum-a$$ question.
In my opinion it is people like Mike that are part of the problem rather than part of the solution. And the "we" he refers to must be him and the turd in his back pocket , because he is certainly straight forward about being at odds with me.
I don't have the personal need to look at others and try to figure out why they are who they are, nor the responsibility to fix them when their broken. It's their responsibility to meet reasonable behavior standards in order to be a functional member of society. I have no moral responsibility to turn a preditor into a tame member of the human race, or to be the social conscience of the planet.
I don't have the answers to what goes wrong with people like Saleem-Hudson and neither does Mike , or for that matter anybody else in my opinion.
It's also my opinion that many who think they have the solutions (and Mike thinks he has the solutions) have been screwing up the process of balancing proper punishment for bad behavior. It didn't start with this latest generation , but it looks like it is going to continue for many more to come.
When the parents don't give a crap - neither will the children . If there is no proper discipline from parents or society for bad behavior - then bad behavior will continue . That's as far toward a concept of "why" as I can muster. Am I wrong ? Maybe. Along with punishment for bad behavior, maybe there should be rewards for good behavior -- could that also be part of the problem ? Likely .
If there is a difference made by poverty , it is in the ability to reward . If that makes all the difference than I should have grown up to be one evil SOB.
In my opinion it is people like Mike that are part of the problem rather than part of the solution. And the "we" he refers to must be him and the turd in his back pocket , because he is certainly straight forward about being at odds with me.
I don't have the personal need to look at others and try to figure out why they are who they are, nor the responsibility to fix them when their broken. It's their responsibility to meet reasonable behavior standards in order to be a functional member of society. I have no moral responsibility to turn a preditor into a tame member of the human race, or to be the social conscience of the planet.
I don't have the answers to what goes wrong with people like Saleem-Hudson and neither does Mike , or for that matter anybody else in my opinion.
It's also my opinion that many who think they have the solutions (and Mike thinks he has the solutions) have been screwing up the process of balancing proper punishment for bad behavior. It didn't start with this latest generation , but it looks like it is going to continue for many more to come.
When the parents don't give a crap - neither will the children . If there is no proper discipline from parents or society for bad behavior - then bad behavior will continue . That's as far toward a concept of "why" as I can muster. Am I wrong ? Maybe. Along with punishment for bad behavior, maybe there should be rewards for good behavior -- could that also be part of the problem ? Likely .
If there is a difference made by poverty , it is in the ability to reward . If that makes all the difference than I should have grown up to be one evil SOB.
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