Crime Cameras: the way to make Flint worse
Flint Michigan is asking for donations to install crime cameras around town, ostensibly to reduce crime. Now, I admit it's cliche to talk about rights like privacy here, but when one thinks about it, that's really not the issue. We get all worked up over a right like "privacy" when in truth, the greatest threat to freedom is the growth of the state and "social control." As pointless personal history, I remember my freshman year debate camp at the University of Kansas where a "social control" disadvantage was being written in order to argue the juvenile crime topic in policy debate that year. And I recall a judge saying that was it worth writing such a disadvantage when most of the students would never appreciate what it truly meant until later in their lives. And at the time, I took umbrage to the idea that I was unwise, and only now, some 13 years later or so, that I realize that I did not, and that most my age still do not. The growth of the state into our lives, and the control we give to them all in the name of security, will bring about dystopia. Flint has crime because it has criminals, and it has a population unwilling to do anything about it, aided by a media and a legal establishment that encourages them to wait for the police. We have become a litigious society that is passive and weak. As grows the state's social control, so declines the strength of the people: morally, physically, emotionally and spiritually.Labels: crime, culture, society
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