Micromanaging the law is a futile process. The early Jews finally got it when Jesus came to teach God’s ideas behind the ten commandments. By the time Jesus came the laws were so convoluted the law makers couldn’t even keep the laws they themselves wrote.
On January 17, 1920 prohibition when into effect after years of the temperance movement trying to get it passed. It was not just a law it was the 19th Amendment to the Constitution ratified one year earlier. The Amendment didn’t last long. Was it necessary? It was the beginning of micromanagement of the law, and by that time there were so many alcoholics they could not stop drinking. Therefore the underworld found it easy to “bootleg” whiskey made in private stills or imported from Canada and other countries.
Alcoholism was not recognized as a problem then. However, now it is and we continue to treat it the same way we did 100 years ago. Other addictive drugs were around then and since then many other addictive drugs have been added.
In the the twentieth century in the 60s and 70s our mental institutions gradually closed down. This action put many thousands of mentally ill persons back on the streets taking drugs that would control their actions. Many of these drugs are the cause of many thousands of people being charged and jailed over drug addition.
The government or God can’t control what someone does to themselves. The government can’t do it and God won’t do it. I know what is right and wrong. We know what we do like drinking or taking drugs and driving is a wrong decision. However, technically if we enforced bad driving decisions due to drug use in the United States about half of the population would be banned from driving.
Every normal thinking citizen knows that if everyone carried a gun there would be a lot more shooting. Some of our legislators have seen too many Clint Eastwood movies and not enough Hopalong Cassidy. William Boyd knew he was an influence to young children, so there were things he was asked to do that he refused.
I was endangered by a shotgun blast in an organized hunt when I was young. I would be more afraid of a person who didn’t have the training carrying a gun than I was that day.
Some drugs are legal and some drugs are not. We should not take drugs unless we need them. All drugs should be legal.
It is good to arrest a person that is under the influence of any substance or arrest a person in public when they could disrupt natural flow of common decency. Jail if necessary but treat in problem while they are in jail.
I hate the idea of abortion, but it a pregnant mother is planning to abort a child, give her an opportunity to pass the child to a couple that needs a child in their lives. Then train the mother how to control pregnancy.
In Tennessee we spend 72 dollars a day to house an inmate with an 80% expectation of that inmate would be returning to jail. In Tennessee federal prisons we spend 96 dollars a day with the same expectation. Aggressive treatment is not given in either plan.
As a society we would rather try to micromanage people outside of the law and put them out of harms way to address the problem short term and just hope that it goes away by itself.
Albert Einstein said Crazy is doing the same thing over and over expecting a different outcome.
Most of us know who Albert Einstein is an recognize his intelligence. We elect leaders that are doing the same thing over and over expecting good things to happen when it didn’t work before.
Micromanagement does not work.
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