Early this morning, cable thieves struck again in our area to steal the recently repaired cable. It was stolen right when I was playing Warcraft, so I noticed it immediately. Unfortunately, I rushed out too late to catch them. I wasn’t too keen on rushing inside the local squatter colony alone.
Discussing this latest theft (less than a week after the previous one!), one of my neighbors kept pontificating on poverty, and how it forces people to steal. My mother criticized me for rushing out in the middle of the night, alone, to intercept people stealing property that was not mine. It sucks the way society has sunk so low that it tolerates crime because of poverty.
A lot of criminals might be poor, but they do not commit crimes because of poverty. Rather, they remain poor because their personality defects that contributed to antisocial behavior also makes them stay poor. But I’m not saying that they can’t help being criminals, and they can’t help being poor. It’s all a matter of choice to them, but as human beings, reinforced by their predisposition, they will evade responsibility so long as they can.
The first thing that one should understand in dealing with these kinds of mind is that there is such a thing as a hardened criminal. These are people who just can’t stop committing crimes. Like a compulsive gambler or a drug addict, they are people who can’t just part with the rush that crimes give them. Sure, they might have been abused or neglected during their childhood, but there are people who are able to put it behind them. Some of them are even from law-abiding, middle-class, and very supportive families. These are the kind of people that must be immediately identified and hanged.
Another kind of criminal would be the criminal of convenience, which I think comprises the majority of criminals. They like living the easy life, abhor responsibility, have low EQs, and are generally not very smart. They commit crimes because it gives them a cheap thrill, and it gives them things that they normally would have to work very hard for. They have a lot of kids that they don’t feed except in front of TV cameras when they’ve been arrested already. These people should also be hanged for being harmful, unproductive, and to serve as examples to others.
Third, we have impulse criminals. They usually commit homicide in a rage, rob stores on a dare, and break windows to show their friends that they’re cool. I think that these people should be jailed, given a chance to repent, and then hanged if they don’t learn.
Finally, we have the fucked-up criminals. These people have real psychological problems that cause them to commit crimes. Serial rapists, child rapists, serial killers – these are people who should be hanged as well since they are organized enough to function inside society. For really crazy people, they should be locked up in asylums.
If one would take care to analyze the categories above, almost all of them commit crimes not because they had to, or because they can’t control themselves, but because they wanted to. They know that it’s wrong, and that they can be punished. But they nevertheless do so out of their own choice. Poverty? They steal other people’s telephone cables to enable them to steal electricity. They steal water, and deprive paying customers of water from their pipes. They steal cellphones to sell for cash so they can get high. They may say they just wanted to feed their families, but they had colored televisions before my family did. Some of them even have airconditioning units. By the way, they have all this in a house built on land that belongs to someone else.
Are they really after survival, or just plain convenience? They see their neighbors getting all these fancy stuff, but just because they wanted one as well does not mean they have a right to it. It they stopped drinking every night, getting high every so often, maybe get a job, then they’d be able to provide for their families.
The funny thing is, bleeding heart liberals believe them when they say they wanted to feed their families, or they just wanted to buy medicines for their children. I know people who have children with chronic diseases who never steal. They work harder, sell their stuff, and tighten their belts. And this kind of people often live beside those who steal from others. I think it’s unfair. One of them wants to remain productive and honorable, and simply wishes to get by. Perhaps they might wish for a few comforts, but they never aspire for anything beyond their reach. The other is not just unproductive, but also inconveniences everyone else around him. He is selfish, manipulative, and bleeding hearts indulge him. They feel guilty that this man is poor and they’re not. And since he’s not stealing from them, then they tell the victims that they must understand.
They tell everyone else that we can’t hang him, because it’s cruel and unusual. We must not sink down to their level. So tolerating chaos is a higher level of existence and thought? Teaching others to evade responsibility makes people intellectuals? I say that even if that were true, then we must be humble and go down to their level. Make them break rocks in a quarry. Hang them. Sure, they might not learn, but it will be cheaper to hang them then sustain their lives at state expense. That comes out of the taxes paid by the victim, by the way.
Oh, some idiots try to say that it’s more cruel to keep someone alive looking out through the bars at a freedom he won’t have and alive to reflect on his crimes. That’s crap. If I’d have raped 10 little girls, I’ll be glad of the opportunity to live in a place where I have my own bed, three square meals a day, with shrinks who tend to my emotional bloodiness. I’d say that’s a good trade.
But no, we’ve been desensitized to the point we don’t care about others anymore, and that’s a victory for crime. You won’t intervene to defend someone else’s property or life, then there’s more chances for them to succeed. Fortunately, law enforcement here is not as politically correct as in the United States, and they don’t bash people who do take the time to actually care.
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