RE: The End of Criminalization: On Free Will, Accountability, and Compassion
I enjoyed this post a lot, until
Homelessness is now considered a crime. It's time to realize that the criminal justice systems are not really made for the people. Disputes could be solved with compassion. Rather than killing people off and throwing them in jails, it's time to treat them like they are medically-ill.
I tripped over this.
Does this mean homelessness is a medical illness ?
With a post like this you could structure it in a way that your interpretation clearly stands apart from the facts.
'Illness' could be used as a justification for governmental violence, just the same.
Instead of Criminalization .... Insanification ( I'm sure there is a word for it - and this isn't it)
I hope this makes some sense.
I upvoted this because it's good.
I disagree on the formulation of the conclusion.
Yes it's not the best word, i get what you mean :) certainly not to that effect (i meant to equate to how doctors treat people who come to them)
Updated: hope it reads better :)
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 .
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..
Man steemit's reply depth only at 6 levels lol
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.
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?
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.
@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
What if they don't want 'help' ?