- Julie Leon
- Allentown, PA
- United States
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Reward those who don't commit crimes. Perhaps anyone reaching 65 years of age that has not committed a crime could get a monetary reward.
If you keep doing the same thing you get the same results. Why not reward good behavior instead?
R H 20+
Simba P.K.S
If I don't live until then? Some sort of incentive may help.... But it should not be based on age. Not doing crime need not be appreciated! But doing good should be! :)
But I do wonder if this is would be a good trend!
"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed?"
-Einstein
Hats off to your novel idea & creativity!:)
Lejan . 30+
:o)
Your idea is interesting, yet I am afraid it will bust all our budgets an send false incentives to a behaviour which should be seen as 'normal'.
Also a lot of crime is related to monetary issues, so it might be less expensive to give those who are likely to commit a crime for it instead of the majority who would not ... In any case decisions on that will be quite difficult ...
Feyisayo Anjorin 50+
We should not celebrate promiscuity as much as we should not idolize mediocrity.
When we have a society where intergrity, honesty, marriages founded and grounded on trust, and respect for human rights prevails; then someone doing the right thing would not feel like an alien, or a lover of oddity.
Then exemplary citizens would not need to wait for a certain age to be paid for their selfless service.
Random Chance 30+
Or is that too obvious?
Think about it: If you don't want to get rid of the causes, then you don't really want to get rid of crime
and you have to ask yourself, "why? Why don't I (you) want to get rid of crime?"
I think it is because most people are so inundated with what they know to be familiar that they cannot really imagine living without it. When people dialog about changes and new ways of living and behaving, they cannot seem to imagine a new system that doesn't include all the same old conflicts and problems.
Crime doesn't come from human nature. It isn't human nature to act in that nature. But most people think that, so right away they have blocked themselves off from truly thinking differently, responding differently and creating differently.
Humans are capable of crime, yes, but we have many responses to choose from depending upon situations and conditions in the personal environments in which we live. Many don't have choices. They aren't bad. They are trying to survive, just like you.
It isn't that you are a good person, and that person is a bad person. Or is that what you think? You're good and they are bad?
Money has been proven to be directly connected to almost 100% of all crime globally, and indirectly connected to what is left. There are some crimes that will still occur that are not money driven. Very few.
Politics and laws don't solve the problem; incarceration doesn't solve the problem; education doesn't solve the problem; cameras don't solve the problem, and Fascist dictators don't solve the problem of crime either.
May I remind you that more prisons in America are now privately owned businesses, traded on the stock-exchange. In order to be profitable AND GROW, they need a growing base of customers. More crime, more criminals and not less.
Pass more laws, "make" more criminals and increase your chances of going to prison in your lifetime
Pay them. Oh, we already do.
Mark Kurtz 20+
Who pays? What are the sources for funds? Would money be the dominating drive for being record free? Would that lower the character of persons who are good just for bucks? Or, would your idea augment present reasons for being crime free?
Seems to me the best rewards for being crime free are the making of friends who trust persons they know are not a threat against their safety and security. Seems to me the best feeling of satisfaction and pleasure of a deserved place in civil life comes from doing the right thing---from respecting people for their rights and
privileges--- from loving people and holding high good morals and ethics. This list could go on perhaps.
Why do we not have sufficient reward for not doing crime? Perhaps the real rewards would come as we train people better while they are children and show them reward is result of effort---stealing is not acceptable. Build on this concept for greater justification that good behavior is better than a criminal life. We all would be rewarded with greater security and happiness when crime is reduced because persons CHOOSE to live right. (Not shouting here, just showing emphasis.)
It sounds like lowering one's self to be good just for money. We need to work harder at doing the right thing and being good models. Those who choose to do crime would have no more respect for persons if given money than living a criminal career. Would they?
Food for thought.
MK
Gerald O'brian 50+
I guess they thought it was uneducationnal.
Stewart Gault 30+