Come on get real, see what I said you are full of slogans, you should come some place like Honduras, close to an anarchy, you get too pushy you can get killed, the country with the second or third highest murder rate in the world where there isn't a war, almost everybody has a weapon, yet when there is a hit on them they can do nothing because hitmen don't talk to you they just shoot. Now how are you going to fix that, by bullying? Crap, you would just leave like most foreigners have already done.
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If my normal speech patterns sound like slogans, that's news to me. I didn't actually know you were in Honduras, I assumed you were right here in the United Snakes. And you might be right about leaving, that's called "voting with your feet" oops.
No, I don't like getting beat up, or worse and I'm just as likely to get reactionary as anyone when threatened. Still, when I have time to reason, I don't blame a mistreated dog for being mean and the same goes for people.
There are special social problems in Honduras that have persisted for a long, long time. Parts of Colombia have been known for la violencia in a very similar way. Breaking that culture of poverty and violence requires a change in philosophy, a transformation in beliefs, different heroes, a different 'story-line.'
However, I do believe the answer lies in the people themselves and not on an imposed, top down "Law and Order," crushing them from the outside.
See, now you are being most reasonable, I believe in the US there is a problem (we also have it here) that is everyone believes it is an us vrs them thing, it really shouldn't be like that I think everyone should just want to live his life as best as he can for himself and his family, this us v them is why I don't believe anarchism would work, people are just to self centered and eventually every society has been destroyed by pure greed, something which all of us have.
Us vs. Them is "received information." You learn it in school, you get it in the MSM, in movies, rap music, etc. Real people normally try to avoid conflict. Conflict is dangerous, expensive and counter-productive.
The purveyors of Us vs. Them is the big, overreaching hand of Govt. Government thrives on conflict and they go around fomenting it everywhere. Then they resolve it in their own best interest. They have the monopoly on the resolution of conflict even when it involves themselves.
Just as surely as people have negative traits, they have positive tendencies too. People help one another every day, even strangers and without any expectation of reward. What to speak of an emergency where people risk their lives for others, open their homes, their pocketbooks, give comfort and aid - you don't need any laws to force it out of them.
It is misinformation that people are so self centered they have to be forced to contribute to anything, it just isn't so. But yes when everyone is mandated, regulated, prohibited and taxed to within an inch of their lives and you can get sued for trying to help someone, behavior does change.
The natural state is much more faith both in Man and God. That kind of belief changes outcomes, it is innate and spontaneous. But nowadays that gets schooled out of people.
Institutional greed is infinitely worse than individual human greed which is a matter of shame and sorrow. Institutional greed gives cover to the perpetrators who can hide behind unjust laws.