Anti-establishment Critics are Like Myopic Kids Obsessed with Playing Cops and Robbers
There are people who are obsessed with scandal and the persecution of persons linked to scandal. This can make no sense. What about things more important than scandals? What about issue X, whose importance on 0-100 scale, is 90--how can you trash the man tainted by scandal who is on your side with issue X, while you glorify the man who is on the wrong side with issue X, who is "pure" regarding scandal, when the scandal is on the 0-100 scale of importance 25 only?
When the most powerful elements in society are scandalous how can you expect absolute purity from anyone? Seems to me that the anti-US-govt-establishment critics, are like children obsessed with playing cops and robber with regards to this or that crime. As a matter of fact hiding behind the hip sophisticated website design and the bylines, you actually do find people who are nothing but teenagers or a few years beyond teenager, but who carry on as if they were as wise as King Solomon himself.
With experience people come to realize that when it comes to the government administration of large territories, it can be a big mistake, to get obsessed with any one particular criminal incident. The fact of the matter is that adults who administer and rule territories, realize that you could have a good year featuring a gang getting away with a major crime, and you could have a bad year featuring a gang being caught prosecuted and convicted. Sometimes crooks get away with something, still life goes on, the society succeeds and progresses. What is more important than throwing the crook in jail is preventing the crime the crook committed from being committed again.
It is childish to suppose, that the only threat to the nation or to the world, is the criminal/scandal threat. All kinds of foolish non-criminal things are done by citizens and governments all the time. These foolish non-criminal acts end up being the indirect cause of criminal harmful acts.
It is childish, to be incapable of conceiving of the possibility, that there could exist men who are criminal, who excel men who are not criminal, due to: the fact that these criminal men, do positive things that are not criminal; the fact that these criminal men refrain from doing negative non-criminal things; the fact that the inferior non-criminal men do non-criminal things that are negative; the fact that the inferior non-criminal men fail to do non-criminal things that are positive; the fact that the superior criminal men do criminal things that are positive; and the fact that the inferior non-criminal men fail to do criminal things that are positive.
The obsession with the persecution of criminal conduct, invariably leads to a de-emphasis, devaluation, and underappreciation of: criminal men doing positive non-criminal things; criminal men avoiding non-criminal but negative acts; criminal men committing criminal acts that are positive.
The obsession with the persecution of criminal conduct, invariably leads to a lack of emphasis being placed on aspects of human conduct such as the harm caused by non-criminal men through; their negative non-criminal acts; their failure to engage in positive non-criminal acts; their failure to engage in positive criminal acts.
Alot of the anti-establishment critics remind me of kids playing cops and robbers, kids with an excessive self esteem based on their myopic obsession with the prosecution of criminals.
It can get to the point in the real world, where a leader can accomplish nothing, because he has nobody left to work with or to praise, because his ethical standards are so strict that everyone in his eyes is merely a crook. Realistically speaking, we have to realize that all men are sinners, lots of men are criminal, but that there are different levels of sin and crime. We have to realize that the negative side of the accounts is not the only side, that humans have a positive side that expresses itself through virtuous and admirable conduct.
Ask any Mogul ruler, Akbar, Jahangir, Babar, Shah Jahan, you name it. The way the real world is, sometimes a ruler and his nation are better off if the ruler just makes peace with a powerful criminal group that has committed some offense against his nation. Nations are constantly having criminal acts perpetrated against them, nations are constantly exposed to treachery, many of the crimes committed against individuals can be committed against nations and often are committed against nations. Nations commit crimes against other nations. The whole point of punishment of criminals is to insure a better future. When the punisment of criminals obstructs a better future, it becomes counterproductive.
The myopic obsession of the anti-establishment kids with playing cops and robbers, only serves to further the interests of the elements these anti-establishment kids fear and loathe. One wonders whether the establishment therefore deliberately encourages the cops and robbers myopia. One wonders how these conspiracy-busting Sherlock-Holmesish kiddos fail to suspect that their own ineffective myopia could be a result of shady cleverness on the part of the establishment they despise.
@2006 David Virgil Hobbs
When the most powerful elements in society are scandalous how can you expect absolute purity from anyone? Seems to me that the anti-US-govt-establishment critics, are like children obsessed with playing cops and robber with regards to this or that crime. As a matter of fact hiding behind the hip sophisticated website design and the bylines, you actually do find people who are nothing but teenagers or a few years beyond teenager, but who carry on as if they were as wise as King Solomon himself.
With experience people come to realize that when it comes to the government administration of large territories, it can be a big mistake, to get obsessed with any one particular criminal incident. The fact of the matter is that adults who administer and rule territories, realize that you could have a good year featuring a gang getting away with a major crime, and you could have a bad year featuring a gang being caught prosecuted and convicted. Sometimes crooks get away with something, still life goes on, the society succeeds and progresses. What is more important than throwing the crook in jail is preventing the crime the crook committed from being committed again.
It is childish to suppose, that the only threat to the nation or to the world, is the criminal/scandal threat. All kinds of foolish non-criminal things are done by citizens and governments all the time. These foolish non-criminal acts end up being the indirect cause of criminal harmful acts.
It is childish, to be incapable of conceiving of the possibility, that there could exist men who are criminal, who excel men who are not criminal, due to: the fact that these criminal men, do positive things that are not criminal; the fact that these criminal men refrain from doing negative non-criminal things; the fact that the inferior non-criminal men do non-criminal things that are negative; the fact that the inferior non-criminal men fail to do non-criminal things that are positive; the fact that the superior criminal men do criminal things that are positive; and the fact that the inferior non-criminal men fail to do criminal things that are positive.
The obsession with the persecution of criminal conduct, invariably leads to a de-emphasis, devaluation, and underappreciation of: criminal men doing positive non-criminal things; criminal men avoiding non-criminal but negative acts; criminal men committing criminal acts that are positive.
The obsession with the persecution of criminal conduct, invariably leads to a lack of emphasis being placed on aspects of human conduct such as the harm caused by non-criminal men through; their negative non-criminal acts; their failure to engage in positive non-criminal acts; their failure to engage in positive criminal acts.
Alot of the anti-establishment critics remind me of kids playing cops and robbers, kids with an excessive self esteem based on their myopic obsession with the prosecution of criminals.
It can get to the point in the real world, where a leader can accomplish nothing, because he has nobody left to work with or to praise, because his ethical standards are so strict that everyone in his eyes is merely a crook. Realistically speaking, we have to realize that all men are sinners, lots of men are criminal, but that there are different levels of sin and crime. We have to realize that the negative side of the accounts is not the only side, that humans have a positive side that expresses itself through virtuous and admirable conduct.
Ask any Mogul ruler, Akbar, Jahangir, Babar, Shah Jahan, you name it. The way the real world is, sometimes a ruler and his nation are better off if the ruler just makes peace with a powerful criminal group that has committed some offense against his nation. Nations are constantly having criminal acts perpetrated against them, nations are constantly exposed to treachery, many of the crimes committed against individuals can be committed against nations and often are committed against nations. Nations commit crimes against other nations. The whole point of punishment of criminals is to insure a better future. When the punisment of criminals obstructs a better future, it becomes counterproductive.
The myopic obsession of the anti-establishment kids with playing cops and robbers, only serves to further the interests of the elements these anti-establishment kids fear and loathe. One wonders whether the establishment therefore deliberately encourages the cops and robbers myopia. One wonders how these conspiracy-busting Sherlock-Holmesish kiddos fail to suspect that their own ineffective myopia could be a result of shady cleverness on the part of the establishment they despise.
@2006 David Virgil Hobbs
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