Truth is sometimes a useful system. Truth is valuable to turn up – 2+2 = 4, if someone is told to get two water bottles and two water bottles and I am the 4th one to get a water bottle then 2+2 = 4 factors into me getting water or not getting water.
There are drug dealers in society. There are police in society. People do not always know who they are, people that want both alive well and not oppressed at the end of the day. Truth becomes gray. Too much power in authority’s hands could lead to great levels of oppression, as WW2 has taught oppression not combated significantly, sufficiently is consequential. And an oppressive system, a system that gives 99.9999% truth at all times could be taken over by a drug king pin.
Thus drugs exists in our society. I don’t see them going away anytime soon – major breakthroughs that are game changing is possible does not equate to I have seen them over my lifetime does not equate to they are not possible.
I don’t want drug dealers selling drugs that hurt people in the first place, and what hurts people is up to debate at times. I also don’t want authority oppressing people and delivering injustice to drug dealers or any citizen for that matter. People that want to stop drugs might not always have adequate energy to ideally reduce oppression in the system – this equates to people want less drug deals and Golden Rule yet might not deliver on that in a sufficient way. Capacity to change, change in a way that does not wreck one’s life factors into and facilitates change, people actually leaving a criminal lifestyle.
From what I have seen in the system, the system can be trusted to protect former drug dealers, people that leave crime? They leave permanent records on citizens and society reinforces criminal background checks in ways that do not take into account innocent and guilty sufficiently, oppression in the system and reduced access to sufficient defense attorneys – run the check equates to talk about results, address potential oppression? Support is limited purposely from what I can tell on this earth, equates to there is likely more oppression in the system than people would like to believe by default. More oppression than perceived equates to people are unlikely to assess risk to sufficient levels.
There are wars on this planet. There are droughts and natural disasters on this planet. There is also evil on this planet, the Devil, and Demons. People have a tendency to compartmentalize – we are talking about war, not about the devil, talking about natural disaster not about potential for evil in combination. Drugs and Authority, Good and Bad categorized and classified, does not always factor in evil that exists in the world, evil that is hard to fully perceive and comprehend, hard to say that is really the cause or not the cause, cause and effect if-ed not all gift.
Governments invest in teaching and truth based upon today – not upon 5 years from now, and levels of corruption have high potential for changing within 5 years for both better or worse. Truth set to always ideal value added when we can’t predict the future has potential for problematic. 2+2 always has to equal 4? Even if 4 oppresses people? Authority that adds right, or authority that adds when adding is just, the two get equated to the same thing?
Politicians ruled by a national debt, potentially leveraged by it get set to be the ones that approve laws with prison terms. Set to value in ideal ways, in un-leveraged ways feels like a bit of tough pill to swallow. Don’t have to factor that in is not likely to be sufficient oppression reduced. The people that are arrested are told you did wrong yet aren’t required to be told the system is kind of rigged, and thus likely don’t always have potential to factor that into their defense. The nation borrows money, who gets it? not you, set to ideal Golden Rule, not rigged? I want our Allies protected, I also believe there are pet projects, and I also know having money or not having money factors into people’s capacity to defend self, whether or not they get a permanent criminal record they can or cannot escape. Government research grants or criminal defense law, criminals can take one for the team (innocent until proven guilty rowed as guilty) said but not said?
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