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Re: Re: Thinking of the victims

Fox, I think you've hit a very important nail on the head here. I think I detect in the lynch mob school so evident in this thread a naÃƒÂ¯ve belief (or a desperate need to believe) in simple solutions. It's the sitcom mentality - all problems and their solution can be compressed into an hour, the baddies get their comeuppance and the goodies are triumphant. Well, life simply isn't like that; our society and the people in it are complex and the problems involved are complex and and not amenable to the equivalent of slapping on a Band-Aid(R).

Moreover, they have divided the world into inherent goodies and inherent baddies, unlike, as it really is, no black, no white but different shades of grey. Of course there will be slipups in legislation and due process - no legislation ever devised can ever address adequately the full range of the human condition, nor can it ever make people do what they should do (or what we think they should do). This makes it even more important that we should always err on the side of mercy and benefit of the doubt, not seize the opportunity to put behind bars people who with the right approach can be recovered to lead useful lives.

<blockquote data-quote="tones" data-source="post: 511070" data-attributes="member: 1035">Re: Re: Thinking of the victims&nbsp;Fox, I think you've hit a very important nail on the head here. I think I detect in the lynch mob school so evident in this thread a naÃƒÂ¯ve belief (or a desperate need to believe) in simple solutions. It's the sitcom mentality - all problems and their solution can be compressed into an hour, the baddies get their comeuppance and the goodies are triumphant. Well, life simply isn't like that; our society and the people in it are complex and the problems involved are complex and and not amenable to the equivalent of slapping on a Band-Aid(R). Moreover, they have divided the world into inherent goodies and inherent baddies, unlike, as it really is, no black, no white but different shades of grey. Of course there will be slipups in legislation and due process - no legislation ever devised can ever address adequately the full range of the human condition, nor can it ever make people do what they should do (or what we think they should do). This makes it even more important that we should always err on the side of mercy and benefit of the doubt, not seize the opportunity to put behind bars people who with the right approach can be recovered to lead useful lives.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tones, post: 511070, member: 1035"] [b]Re: Re: Thinking of the victims[/b] Fox, I think you've hit a very important nail on the head here. I think I detect in the lynch mob school so evident in this thread a naÃƒÂ¯ve belief (or a desperate need to believe) in simple solutions. It's the sitcom mentality - all problems and their solution can be compressed into an hour, the baddies get their comeuppance and the goodies are triumphant. Well, life simply isn't like that; our society and the people in it are complex and the problems involved are complex and and not amenable to the equivalent of slapping on a Band-Aid(R). Moreover, they have divided the world into inherent goodies and inherent baddies, unlike, as it really is, no black, no white but different shades of grey. Of course there will be slipups in legislation and due process - no legislation ever devised can ever address adequately the full range of the human condition, nor can it ever make people do what they should do (or what we think they should do). This makes it even more important that we should always err on the side of mercy and benefit of the doubt, not seize the opportunity to put behind bars people who with the right approach can be recovered to lead useful lives. [/QUOTE]

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