re: poliboard existentialism

At what point in your post were you planning to make a point? Am I supposed to be upset that your "student" not only committed a crime, but is obviously a repeat offender? Where is the system failing him, or you?

And what rules is Trump not following? How many times has he been accused without evidence? You think it would be justice if the system wrongfully convicted him of crimes he hasn't committed? I thought you cared about justice?

And how does Trump not have "skin in the game"? What does this even mean? Do you know?

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Pretty sure anyone who has seen even one rerun of law and order has a better understanding of how plea deals work than you do.

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Yea. You plead to LESSER charges. If you plead DOWN to what is still a felony.. you did something MAJOR. Meanwhile you cruise through multiple pages just jabbering about how little ole repeat offender is just an angel in the wrong place at the wrong time and is basically behind bars for something other random people do every day but is privileged enough to skate on.

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Carry on posting your laughing emojis. That’s always a tell of a solid argument.

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And you continue to destroy you last shreds of credibility by..

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This is exactly why your preachiing goes 100 pages. You ignore... deflect... strawman... all the tricks. All to faithfully parrot the narrative you have been commanded to repeat. For absolutely free of charge to them.

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So continue on with your soft bigotry of low expectations.

If you REALLY wanted to make a difference.. you would be working against, and critical of, the youth desparaging other youth as "acting white" when they are attempting to actually learn and apply themselves. You would be working against, and critical of, the thug lifestyle that is glorified and idolized throughout their community. Which are two things that lead to what your subject is involved in. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh but we cannot say anything about that! It's their "culture" and we all must respect and applaud everyone else's "culture" while disparaging our own.

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Many posters here are simply unhinged and suffer from immense emotional dysregulation.

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You’re talking about yourself again.

Ready to climb down from your high horse and simply admit you were wrong?

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Our system is capture, traumatize, release.

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The ONLY way to change behavior is punishment. People choose to do an action (any action) because they get a benefit from doing that action (otherwise they wouldn't do it). The benefit comes in many forms (financial gain, sexual pleasure, enjoyment, food to eat, etc). People will continue to do the action that gives them a benefit until the consequences outweigh the benefit.

I have a 109 acre farm. I find walking a shorter distance preferable to walking a longer distance. On this farm we have barbed wired fences and electric fences. Sometimes while working, I'll endure a few scratches to cross thru a barbed wire fence and avoid the walk to a gate. The benefit of a shorter walk is worth the consequence of a few scratches. However, the benefit of a shorter walk is never worth the consequence of being shocked by that electric fence (been bit by it a few times and it hurts) and I always choose the gate.

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She doesn’t know what a farm is. Let alone barbed wire.

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Likely true. That's why she wants all these illegals here, so they can do the farm work for her.

How you figure?
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How you figure?

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He said so himself right in his own post. People are motivated by carrots AND sticks. Punishment isn't the only lever, so is reward.

In the context of the corrections system, all incarceration does as the system stands right now is develop more violent and hardened criminals.

And the research is clear that people are not deterred by harsh punishments or long sentences. They are deterred by a high likelihood of getting caught, but not harsh punishments. So we know kind of for a fact that that doesn't work.

As I posted above, we need to stop people from committing so many crimes in the first place, and the way to do that is not punishment. It's restoring the nuclear family. Nothing else comes close to the difference that would make.

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I guarantee that my dad's

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And that's the real key.

Your dad's leather strap wouldn't do shite to change the behavior of an adult criminal, but that authority applied to a child tends to produce an adult with respect for society, the law, and general morality.

When there is a dad with a leather strap at home, the adult that is produced is civilized. When there's not, the chances that the adult that is produced will be some flavor of anti-social skyrockets.

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The idea that the nuclear family can exist in this day and age is a utopian notion.

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That's obviously nonsense.

My nuclear family is intact. Out of several hundred families at my church, probably 80% of them are intact.

That's an absurd statement to the point that I kind of doubt that you meant it at face value. You must have meant something else.