Friday, August 12, 2011
Let's drop the poverty schtick
Headline in the UK Daily Mail:
The riots are not the result of poverty, but the result of failure to teach values, insist on ethical behavior, failure to respect property rights. They are the outcome from relativist ethics, and the liberal approach to life--life is a zero-sum game, therefore only redistribution is fair. This is simply another form of redistribution, with the same moral substrate. Create young people with no objective way to create a feeling of self-worth, and then add "if it feels good, do it" attitudes to their already lousy self-image, and destruction is guaranteed.
What is disgusting is the response of the non-leadership of government--more liberal ideology. Instead of force, rapidly and accurately applied, there is blather about reasoning with them. These are rabid animals when they are rioting, not human beings. They need to be quickly and forcebly restrained. Because they are biological humans, one doesn't simply shoot them, but water cannon would have been a lot smarter than the BS that got bandied about.
The US still at least believes in suppression of riots as fast as possible. However, we are teaching the same ideology in our schools and rapidly depriving our young people of the means to find work and meaning when we raise the minimum wage. It will be coming here in a few years if things don't change.
The middle class 'rioters' revealed: The millionaire's daughter, the aspiring musician and the organic chef all in the dock
The riots are not the result of poverty, but the result of failure to teach values, insist on ethical behavior, failure to respect property rights. They are the outcome from relativist ethics, and the liberal approach to life--life is a zero-sum game, therefore only redistribution is fair. This is simply another form of redistribution, with the same moral substrate. Create young people with no objective way to create a feeling of self-worth, and then add "if it feels good, do it" attitudes to their already lousy self-image, and destruction is guaranteed.
What is disgusting is the response of the non-leadership of government--more liberal ideology. Instead of force, rapidly and accurately applied, there is blather about reasoning with them. These are rabid animals when they are rioting, not human beings. They need to be quickly and forcebly restrained. Because they are biological humans, one doesn't simply shoot them, but water cannon would have been a lot smarter than the BS that got bandied about.
The US still at least believes in suppression of riots as fast as possible. However, we are teaching the same ideology in our schools and rapidly depriving our young people of the means to find work and meaning when we raise the minimum wage. It will be coming here in a few years if things don't change.
// posted by Bill @ 10:23 AM 
