An idea that originally attracted me to Left politics was that virtue & vice are largely products of the environment; that we would all...
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This idea largely seems to have disappeared. We hear very little talk of the possibility of redemption or rehabilitation. Instead, we get...
"progressives" calling for harsher punishments, extrajudicial punishment, consequences that follow people around for a lifetime, and so on.
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It's as thought the Left, when it comes to particular classes of crime, have adopted the Daily Mail's playbook. It's depressing to see...
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people who ought to know better suggesting that brutalizing life experience plays no causal role in people's bad behavior. But of course it
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bloody does. The argument that terrible things happen to people, and they don't go on to commit heinous crimes, therefore there is no link
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between the two is (a) an awfully bad argument; and (b) precisely the same argument that right-wingers used to deploy to dismiss links...
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between poverty and crime, etc. If you consider yourself progressive, and you're tempted by that sort of argument, you need to start...
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thinking a bit harder. Same goes for the link between mental illness and violence. It doesn't follow from the fact that mental illness...
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overall is inversely correlated with violence crime, that mental illness is not a causal factor in any particular case. And it doesn't...
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follow that just because you've been living non-violently with your mental illness that mental illness cannot be a causal factor, & thereby
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diminish culpability, in somebody else's case. The Left used to be good seeing the limits of personal responsibility. It's now crap at it.
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