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RE: The End of Criminalization: On Free Will, Accountability, and Compassion

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Not really :D

I got fined for illegal camping, before.
Do I need healing ?

Can you see why I have to disagree ?

I think I get you.

You sorta skip one thought, though ...
I struggle to explain this in english ...

a conclusion leap jumpy thing .

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    Oh I'm writing about this in some next post. I believe there's a reason why self-organization has led to centralized governments. And while the mainstream crowd has unknowingly given rights to the government to take care of things, so called "supporting slavery", I think there should be a transition period. Decentralization is the next best move, but while we're at it, I wish not to see so many unnecessary suffering coming out of the practice of criminalization..

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    The way I understand it is that author means to take homeless people into a system with specialists, facilities, funding to help them out. We have health care systems to treat medically ill, similarly we need to reform welfare systems to be able to extend hands to homeless people.

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      Oh not talking about the homeless per se @dangis @felixxx, I tihnk what i really meant is not to criminalize people by default (which is punishment), so i went for an opposing verb which is healing?

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      What I don't agree on is, that you sound like you want the government to fix it.

      I believe we should decriminalize and then get the government out of people's lifes.

      A state funded welfare system like the health care system can never synthesize tolerance or inclusiveness - let alone compassion.

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        @dangis that's a great idea. ironically, it's already been tried and the programs were done away with for a variety of reasons that ultimately had to do with money. Take a look at this article if you're interested. Of course, it's only one article but it paints a fairly cursory yet not inaccurate portrait of what happened. http://www.nytimes.com/1984/10/30/science/how-release-of-mental-patients-began.html?pagewanted=all

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        You have free will, no matter what others may tell you. However, you can only be as free as your environment and mental life. Take for example, slavery used to be acceptable in the United States. Are supporters of slavery exercising their own free will to support the idea of slavery, regardless whether if its right or wrong? If its so commonplace in a culture, it may never occur to someone that it's wrong.

        What if they don't want 'help' ?