A Revelation regarding Crime and Punishment
Smee again:
I’m back!
I have managed to frame my Argument for Personal Growth and am
making slow but steady progress on my speech to Surrey Council that will accompany
its presentation to them. It’s a pretty good dose of Common Sense. It attempts
to cover a wide variety of pertinent flaws in their Bylaw, and suggests an
alternative way of approaching the problem of Personal Growth in the City.
Working on my speech has
resulted in only a trickle of news to post regarding marijuana. My partner in
crime, Luigi, suggested I share with you some of the extensive Wisdom I have
gained from my long roller coaster ride through life. It’s amazing how easily
champagne and caviar can turn into Kraft dinner and draft beer. Keep some of
both in your cupboard, they can save from you hunger and adjust your attitude
simultaneously when the world goes upside down. I assume Luigi means Comment
and Criticism and I’ve got lots of both. I will therefore begin your
enlightenment.
“The Gospel according to Smee”
Chapter One: “Revelations”
Revelation 1.1- Harper
building all those Jails is Stupid!
He simply doesn’t grasp that
there is no incentive to rehabilitate your behaviour when your punishment is get
lodging far better that you have on the street, 3 squares and a roof complete
with TV, cell phone and internet connection. Jail time is no deterrence to
recidivism and that includes time at hard labour. History shows the only really
effective deterrent to any criminal action is Fear of the consequences.
Stephen should wake up and
realize that there is one thing feared by nearly all creatures with a nervous
system: PAIN. Let’s use it. Evolution
has given us an immediate pain avoidance reflex. All we have to do is wake it up.
When someone considers a decision to commit a crime, fear that the consequences
will be extremely painful will make an effective deterrent.
Unfortunately most adults of
middle age are the result of being raised under the guidance of Dr. Benjamin
Spock and his book “Baby and Child Care.” He ruined a whole damned generation
with his “Don’t hit the little bugger, you’ll damage his ego” philosophy. End
result a generation of egocentric adults with no sense of consequences. Now
they are the ones in charge: Woe is us!
I am not talking about
torture. Torture involves violence and physical damage: I’m talking about the
controlled infliction of pain as punishment: nothing physical. Make the
punishment for crime just too horrible. All humans fear pain. Nobody likes it
and everyone does their best to avoid it from the time of birth to the moment
of death. The only thing that would be almost perfectly effective as a
deterrent to crime on a mass scale is fear of pain too terrible to contemplate.
There is a way to create just that
I’m not going to pretend
that I know enough to decide how to inflict pain but do no physical damage,
I’ll leave that in the capable hands of CSIS and the CIA. They have lots of experience with drug induced compliance. Their joint
illegal studies of chemicals like LSD back in the 50’s, undoubtedly contain
some drugs that could be pulled out of mothballs and used to inflict modern day
misery on the criminal class. I’d lay odds they can com up with a suitable
application of pain.
Think about it. It could
work!
That’s it for now.
More to follow shortly,
until then
The.Smee.Goan.Guy
