re: Does this align with being pro-life? Louisiana refuses summer meal assistance for kids

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Parents should feed their own kids

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That's right. And if they don't do it, those kids deserve to die painful deaths.

That'll show 'em.

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That's right. And if they don't do it, those kids deserve to die painful deaths.

That'll show 'em.

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Stupid attempt at a gotcha, but at least you've outed yourself as someone who is ok with the fact that millions of kids will suffer in the future because idiots like you don't actually WANT to solve these problems....

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I don't even know what you're trying to say there.

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Obviously......

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You know how I know laws work? Because if there were no laws and I ever met you in person, I would punch you in the face. Hard. But because I would go to jail and probably also prison for doing so, i wouldn't, because you wouldn't be worth all that.

It would probably be the only thing preventing it, though.

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So, wackatimesthree, you'd hit women except that there are laws prohibiting it.

And here's the problem with America today, too many people rely on the government telling them what they can and can't do instead of relying on their own God-given sense of right and wrong to guide their actions.

I don't care what the law says, I don't hit women. It's wrong.

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Interesting chart. Let's look at this one:



That red line starts declining rapidly in the early 1960s? In 1963, JFK signed the Community Mental Health Act, intending to shift the treatment of mentally ill people from state funded residential psychiatric hospitals to federally funded community health centers. But he was assassinated a few weeks later and those community health centers were never funded. States did start shutting down their mental hospitals though.

In 1965, Medicaid came into existence, which specifically excluded in-patient psychiatric care from federal reimbursement, but would partially reimburse nursing home care. By 1980, 44% of all nursing home patients had severe mental illness. But new laws also made involuntary commitment more difficult, so many former psychiatric hospitals residents instead became homeless.

That blue line starts rising rapidly in the early 1980s? In 1981, Reagan signed the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act, shifting the financial care of the mentally ill back to states... which had already closed the majority of their mental institutions and had limited power to commit psychiatric patients to them even if they had still existed.


SO to answer your question:

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If laws discouraged anti-social behavior, why has anti-social behavior increased exponentially?

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There has always and will always exist a segment of society that cannot function safely in society, whether by their own choice or due to mental capacity. For 60 years now, we have been in the process of moving those people from mental health institutions to prison institutions. Which is why the total population of institutionalized ends up roughly right back where it was before we started this social experiment.

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I'm not implying anything. I am telling you point blank that in Seattle, people smoke reefers in public. In Charleston, they don't. The difference in behavior is entirely due to differences in law. The Charleston reticence is not d/t immediate arrest. It is d/t the possibility of arrest.

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Ok. People smoke weed inside in Charleston to decrease the likelihood of getting arrested.

Tell the to every state that attempts to pass unconstitutional gun laws.

Maybe Ukraine or the illegals coming over can fund it.

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By 1990 most states had mandatory minimum sentences for drug offenses.

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I think Biden referred to those criminals as animals in a jungle.

That's before of course Pedo-Joe decided his child molesting children were exempt....