Norway's One Man Wrecking Crew

[urbanbreez]

Simple. Once you admit that most crime is a by product of poverty, which is a by product of a poor education, and that kids today are entitled by educators whose number one concern is themselves, given ribbons for 10th place, and told how wonderful they are, when they aren't. They turn to what works. Crime. Kids have no choice but to find ways to cheat their way through life. Be it smaller crimes like shoplifting, (entitled to it) or harder crimes like robbery or assault, on up.

You've definitely oversimplified things here and though I don't agree with you, I respect the fact that you were able to explain why you think as you do. There is plenty crime coming from the more privileged and educated members in our society and I'd argue that crime is less a product of poverty and more a problem of the human condition known as greed. At the very least, the finger of blame should primarily spend its time on parents and occasionally wag towards "the village" but never the opposite. It's really a breakdown of the nuclear family at the root and the erosion of those ideals that contributed greatly to this generation's social deviants. In others words, women should spend more time makin my sammich.

[Neato Torpedo]

Boy you sure give up easy.

You don't want to prevent crime?

sure i do. id probably start with the public education system that cranks out an entitlement society, instead of showing these impressionable young minds the benefits of hard work.

Well if we improved our education system, we'd have fewer criminals. If we improved both our education system and our prison system, we'd have much fewer criminals. Why not both?

[wrveres]

well crap. i had a nice post up, and then my browser crashed.

i am not discounting parents involvement, but those parents got their education at the same place. just saying.

[wrveres]

You don't want to prevent crime?

sure i do. id probably start with the public education system that cranks out an entitlement society, instead of showing these impressionable young minds the benefits of hard work.

Well if we improved our education system, we'd have fewer criminals.

because we have different ideas on how to fix it. You want more government and unions.

I want neither.

[urbanbreez]

You don't want to prevent crime?

sure i do. id probably start with the public education system that cranks out an entitlement society, instead of showing these impressionable young minds the benefits of hard work.

Well if we improved our education system, we'd have fewer criminals. If we improved both our education system and our prison system, we'd have much fewer criminals. Why not both?

Answer: limited resources.

[Neato Torpedo]

sure i do. id probably start with the public education system that cranks out an entitlement society, instead of showing these impressionable young minds the benefits of hard work.

Well if we improved our education system, we'd have fewer criminals.

because we have different ideas on how to fix it. You want more government and unions.

I want neither.

OK if we changed the education system the way you think it should be changed and reformed prisons to mimic Norway's (assuming we had two coupons for free education reform and free prison reform, not packaged for individual sale, cash value 1/20th of a cent), we would have fewer criminals, correct?

[Neato Torpedo]

sure i do. id probably start with the public education system that cranks out an entitlement society, instead of showing these impressionable young minds the benefits of hard work.

Well if we improved our education system, we'd have fewer criminals. If we improved both our education system and our prison system, we'd have much fewer criminals. Why not both?

Answer: limited resources.

We're assuming two coupons for free education reform and free prison reform, not packaged for individual sale, cash value 1/20th of a cent. Keep up.

[wrveres]

Well if we improved our education system, we'd have fewer criminals.

because we have different ideas on how to fix it. You want more government and unions.

I want neither.

OK if we changed the education system the way you think it should be changed and reformed prisons to mimic Norway's (assuming we had two coupons for free education reform and free prison reform, not packaged for individual sale, cash value 1/20th of a cent), we would have fewer criminals, correct?

not sure what you are trying to ask here, but if we improved the education system, and allowed teachers that actually wanted to teach, teach, that would lower the crime rate over time, yes.
As for Norway's prison system, again it works because of the small volume of people. It would never work in the US, because even with your 1/20 coupon thingamabob (fantasy land), you are going to blow all your savings on laptops, and bigscreens, not to mention the 2 million grief counselors you are going to have to train and employee.

I guess i am missing your point ...

[Neato Torpedo]

because we have different ideas on how to fix it. You want more government and unions.

I want neither.

OK if we changed the education system the way you think it should be changed and reformed prisons to mimic Norway's (assuming we had two coupons for free education reform and free prison reform, not packaged for individual sale, cash value 1/20th of a cent), we would have fewer criminals, correct?

not sure what you are trying to ask here, but if we improved the education system, and allowed teachers that actually wanted to teach, teach, that would lower the crime rate over time, yes.
As for Norway's prison system, again it works because of the small volume of people. It would never work in the US, because even with your 1/20 coupon thingamabob (fantasy land), you are going to blow all your savings on laptops, and bigscreens, not to mention the 2 million grief counselors you are going to have to train and employee.

I guess i am missing your point ...

If we got laptops, big screens, grief counselors, and psychiatrists all for free, wouldn't it make sense to use them to make the U.S. prison system into an anti-recidivism system like Norway rather than a punishment system like we have now? Obviously this can never happen, but if we could, we should.

[wrveres]

If we got laptops, big screens, grief counselors, and psychiatrists all for free, wouldn't it make sense to use them to make the U.S. prison system into an anti-recidivism system like Norway rather than a punishment system like we have now? Obviously this can never happen, but if we could, we should.

no.