Survival of the fittest seems to be the rule that no Legislature can amend or repeal.seamusTX wrote: If only it worked that way.
"Scared straight" programs can work with some kids. When I was in high school they took us on a tour of Cook County jail. This was a bad place. You could smell it from the parking lot. Years later I realized that the inmates that we encountered probably were trustys who were stationed to do exactly what they did, which was scare the stuffing out of us. One of them stuck his well-muscled arm between the bars and said something like, "Yum, fresh meat."
Also those wrecked cars and ghost plays might deter some kids from drinking and driving.
However, some don't learn by example, and some are removed from the gene pool. It's sad. It really is. Probably a dozen living people will not be the same after this incident, for the rest of their lives.
- Jim
We as a human race have largely gotten past the point where everything we do is merely for survival. Some foolishness, inefficiency is allowed but irresponsibility can have awful consequences before you can even think about it. Some do stupid things and get away with them, and that is interpreted as authority to others to do likewise, with frequently disastrous consequences.