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Are increasing laws leading people to abandon their humanity?

Everyday new laws are created to prevent or premote actions, but what about common sense?

I think an intelligent person can agree that there are no absolutes in life. So why is it that we cannot find a way to create one rule, call it the "Golden Rule" (pun intended), and fix the broken system?

Do we really need "laws" to protect us from ourselves? Or laws to proteect our feelings? What happend to self-esteem and common sense?

Why do we make criminals out of people instead of educating them, has the system really given up on people and decided that locking them away is just easier?

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  • Random Chance 30+

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    Nov 6 2012: Right on Lejan.
    To some degree I believe this is true.
    More laws simply make more humans into criminals,so that they can be taken into the system and increase the profits of the business of prisons, which are traded on the Stock Exchange, and in order to remain solvent and grow in profits (don't forget good 'ole competition), they need a steady growth in their customer base. More criminals. Not less.

    Locking them up isn't easier per se, but it is profitable. That's why they're in the business and lying to the public about any goals of helping society. More laws have effectively increased the possibilities that those who believe they are far removed from the law, will wind up in prison. Good, supposed, law-abiding people. It's a trap they will not be able to avoid or escape. Unless and sometimes, they are able to abandon their own humanity to survive.

    So, because everyone is trying to survive, they will be forced into breaking a law for survival, or do something unethical or something most humans wouldn't ordinarily do, were it not for how tightly they are being squeezed, corralled, cornered and controlled.

    The Bible is just such a Pest and has been used for tyranny since its artificial inception and embedded placement into the human psyche. At least in most Western Un-Cultures.
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    Gail . 50+

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    Oct 31 2012: You asked, "What happend to self-esteem and common sense?"

    My answer: Religion
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      Jedrek Stepien 10+

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      Oct 31 2012: The 10 commandments are pretty commonsensical. The rest of the Bible pretty much too, honestly. The problem must be somewhere else.
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        Lejan . 30+

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        Nov 1 2012: Neither the 10 commandments nor the Bible is a source of common sense. And those ideas which are do not need its context.
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        Lejan . 30+

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        Nov 2 2012: Because it scares if I wasn't drunk for such a statement? In fact, I wasn't. :o)
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