"Don't pay it no mind, you're under 18 you won't be doing any time"

[gemfyre]

I've realised something.

When it comes to animal issues I am pretty left wing. I will go the environmentalist way and scream at the capitalists who would just rape and pillage the lot if they could for the short term gains. However, I am not completely extreme. I still love my meat and my car.

However, for human issues I am pretty right wing. The bleeding hearts piss me off. Yeah, this was inspired by the events of Thursday night. Somebody commented that violence was not the answer because they have been bought up with violence so don't care, also the fact that humiliation wouldn't work for the same reason. Is this reasoning how the justice system became so fucked up?? "Oh poor you, you had a bad childhood." *smack on the wrist* "Now run along and be a good kid." In which they repeat offend, KNOWING damn well that they will get away with stuff. They get it in their head that it's their God given right to steal the stuff HONEST people have worked hard for. So when they DO get punished they scream blue murder and the people in the right that have punished them get in trouble! Seriously fucked up. Maybe they get put into a "correctional facility". I've studied youth work. It's a load of bullshit, it's all about passing the buck and not actually helping anyone. When I started Human Services I wanted to help people. I just ended up jaded. The system as it stands DOES NOT WORK. Just because you have an abusive childhood is not an excuse to be abusive yourself. MOST people understand what's right and wrong and do right. It's NO FUCKING EXCUSE!! USE YOUR BRAINS!! These people need a good kick up the ass so they maybe they will THINK and hopefully after their punishment is over, try and make some good of their lives. Maybe. But no, we have a bleeding hearts system that punishes the honest ones and lets the crooks get away with anything. *sigh* We've gone from one extreme to another, from hanging someone for stealing bread to letting people get away with grand robbery scot free.

I'm sure torture will make these little shits "care". *growls*

Discuss. (I'm certainly not one to insist that everyone agrees with me).

This will kinda relate to my next rant.

Comments

[jet-ski.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's kinda what I figured. Somehow I think the left and right wing distinctions are getting a little old. The left and the right both tended to be pro-growth, for different reasons. The whole discourse of 'sustainable development' has modernist origins, and is only a repackaged 'growth' model. It has a faith in technology that somehow I cannot accept (it is technology that got us into this mess in the first place, is it not? we cannot uncritically accept it as our saviour... i say as I tap away on my 21 century computer...)

Some day, I shall write my manifesto! *coughs*

*from Motorace* 'we wear american shoes so we can't speak for anything, anything... we talk, we're really confused....so we won't speak for anything, anything'

[shadowshifter.livejournal.com]

i dont care much for most humans. most of them are too stupid. fortunately they seem to be concentrated mostly in one area of the world. unfortunately their stupidity seems to be contagious.