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Response to Jackpine Radical (Original post)
Sat May 16, 2015, 12:20 AM
Voice for Peace (13,141 posts)
64. great post, thought provoking, thank you!
From what we know of child development, there is every reason to imagine that children who grow up in a society that approves the killing of human beings will have lower inhibitions against killing than do children whose society teaches an absolute intolerance of killing. Something is coming to mind, from Gibran, what he wrote about crime and punishment.* It has to do with the collective guilt and collective innocence of us all. Punishment, esp cruel punishment, rarely causes a person to look within himself and examine his deeds. Rehabilitation requires authentic remorse, and authentic understanding of the crime. It requires feeling the pain and harm one has inflicted on others. It also requires an opportunity for restitution. These prisons offer none of that. They are mostly big black holes swallowing up human lives. *I'm still puzzling through the formless pigmy but the "god self" I understand as the highest human potential -- not something ethereal -- but the tangible, loving, compassionate human heart and conscience. I also believe there are many 100% innocent victims, but this is about the collective knowledge -- as you wrote above. What the children grow up on: it affects the school, the town, the state, the laws, the crime. It is absorbed through the skin, through the food, through the sounds and smells. Do you recall the forest which turns out to be a single tree, although above ground it appears to be thousands of individual trees? Underground, one root system.
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