The Puppy-dog Bandit

The Puppy-dog Bandit

If I see someone walking their dog in the park. I think it is cute, probably would be nice to hug. That said I don’t desire to take their puppy from them. I think most people are in a similar boat.

Imagine two police stations, useful for a hypothetical.

One where things go on as normal. OfficeA

Another where there is 100 carat diamond placed in the middle of the room for a period of one day. OfficeB

At the end of the day, even if the diamond is not taken, which office is better for the experience of the day?

Confidence, Confidence that people are trustworthy, will deliver sufficiently factors into capacity to deliver. If I see gravel on a property, there are likely rocks with the same number of atoms as that diamond. The difference is value, what people value. Diamonds and Puppies are more valuable than gravel. People are thus more protective of Diamonds and Puppies. Protectionism is not always ideal temptation reduced, valuable objects are not always ideal temptation reduced.

Idealing temptation reduced is costly. Maximizing temptation reduction to a point close to ideal is costly.

People are not diamonds. People are not puppies. That said if someone steals someone else’s wife or girlfriend are they not like a diamond thief, not like the puppy dog bandit? Taking someone beautiful and inspirational from another person’s life is consequential.

My guess is people that commit adultery don’t really want to be like The Puppy-dog Bandit. Likely not the first thought in their mind.

Trying to ideal temptation reduction might lead to zero makeup. Might lead to zero people allowed at beaches. Might lead to full coverings, coverings that might lead to heat stroke in the Texas summer. Requirement to ideal for sufficient protection is less than ideal.

The Bible says looking at a woman with lust in eye has already committed adultery in heart. Yet we as a society allow lingerie shops in malls, and allow bikinis at beaches. One might desire to value real adultery – one that might lead to children from other parents, as different than lust in eye. Without sin cast the first stone is important to turn up, I also feel like there is difference between the two though that is a bit in opposition to Christ’s judgment.

Allowing difference between the two might give people more ground to claim stoning is useful, which I do not want, thus Christ’s representation might be both more ideal and less ideal in some ways. I would likely assess someone different that looks at a playboy than someone that impregnates my wife (I am not married, just using this for sake of argument)? Valuation is equal, low cut dress at weddings equal insufficient adultery reduced, on par with child from another father or mother?

Christ’s argument is both reasonable and seems unreasonable from my perspective. Though my perspective and comprehension is based upon human judgment and assessment, perception and comprehension that has also proven to be less than ideal at times throughout history.

I don’t want anyone stoned and I don’t want beautiful encouragement robbed from my everyday, polluted with accusation thoughts? I also don’t want to dehumanize though I think Puppy-dog Bandit might give people more appreciation for those being stolen from are someone’s child (even if grown), and still is deserving of kindness and compassion. Someone’s wife looks at a man in a power suit set to adulterer seems kind of messed up. Is not is does not always amplify in minds that are less than ideal assessment and judgment. A depressed man walks by a lingerie shop in the mall, suddenly sets self to puppy dog bandit? Accepting that representation doesn’t feel all good, all sufficiently inconsequential.

I don’t want to be set to adulterer for liking beauty, for allowing women to wear less than full coverings and I don’t want to be the puppy dog bandit. If God really wanted to ideal it, likely would have hit the statue of David with a lightning bolt by now. Of course expecting God to fix less than ideals generated by history might not be sufficient realism. Statue of David proximity to worshiped Golden Calf Idol? No longer under law consequential not ideally comprehended.