Monday, April 11, 2005

How do you decide your limits

in a situation like this?

Britain is worse, but there are plenty of cities here where if you threw their butts off the bus, you'd be the one arrested. This is one of the things that really worries me; when a lot of the squirrels in authority care more about protecting some thug from having his self-esteem harmed than about what harm they are doing. When, if you act to protect someone, you wind up with the jerk calling the police to get you for daring to interrupt their fun.

One of the standard problems today: how do you maintain a civil society when many of the people in authority seem determined to destroy it? And think that their efforts are 'enlightened' and 'progressive'? When do you decide that acting, and facing arrest & jail, is worth it despite the various costs?

And how did we get into such a situation? How the hell did we go from 'a man's home is his castle' to lawyers helping a criminal sue his victim for daring to harm him in self-defense? And judges who, instead of telling the bailiff to kick the attorney three times around the courtroom, actually hear the case?

Sometimes I do despair.

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