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Jump To Comment: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8Yeah it was much better in the old days.
Back then, the cops were allowed to hand out a few slaps or even a few kicks without having to bother arresting people.
They could just hand out their version of justice to whoever they liked. If that meant people got sore heads, well they were in the wrong- otherwise what were they dooing mixed up with Guards? Republicans and Communists, Travellers and Scumbags, "protesters" etc.
Ordinary decent people never came to the attention of the Gardaí.
And okay, back in the old days, occassionally the cops went too far and put someone in hospital or even killed some young lad. But then there'd be a cover up, no one said anything.
Everyone blamed the victim, who was probably poor and inarticulate. Ordinary decent people never got beaten or killed in Garda barracks.
So the priests and the politicians and the judges and the guards all ganged up and fucked over those who threatened their power, and there was no talk of human rights, or community policing by consent, or due process or any of that nonsense.
That was what it was like back then. Oh wait, that's what it's like now...
In this article you state “Society has allowed this situation [to] develop over many years and society is now looking for answers to something it promoted and developed itself.” Please can you reference this claim with the survey or report that supports how our “society has allowed this situation [to] develop over many years”? Thank you very much.
However in another statement you contradict Irish Catholic social teaching and theology, when you state: “If we recognise that children are not born bad but are influenced by their parents and the environment in which they grow up in[,]” --Perhaps you’ve never heard of Original Sin; the sin we’re born into? Nor hear about the Catholic belief of the cleansing of sin by penance and confession? Not to mention this statement also (the part where I've highlighted in bold) does away with the requisite of the Sacrament of Baptism, whereby the child, born in to the world is freed from the clutches of hell and welcomed into the Church and everlasting life, and for whom Christ was died on the Cross!
You propose a tenuous argument when you state: “we can safely say that the environment which influences their development is also governed by the way in which our society is governed and controlled.”—passing the buck or looking for a scapegoat or someone to point the finger at, is a febrile approach to any argument; and this “argument” is again unsubstantiated by you in this article.
Less opinion and more evidence and research is needed to make this article worthwhile and a credit to the author.
Seems to be very little about what appears to have been an extremely serious confrontation between the community and drug dealers on Monday night. Criminals are apparently targetting anyone who is associated with community groups. Something concrete needs to be done to take these people out of circulation and off the backs of decent people. I am in awe of the bravery of those who like the residents there and the Collins family in Limerick are prepared to stand up. My own instinct I have to say would be to get the fk out.
"Perhaps you’ve never heard of Original Sin; the sin we’re born into?"
It is a tenet of Christianity that we are born bad.
It is outrageous to claim that a day old child is already a sinner because of someone stealing some fruit a few thousand years ago in the Middle East.
If it died before the Christians managed to "save" it by sprinkling water on it and mumbling some mumbo-jumbo it was not even given a decent burial.
The unfortunate child was then confined to "Limbo",literally "The edge of hell" for ever and ever.
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limbo
(Christians have changed tack since..in the light of modern humanist enlightenment.)
It is this nonsense,"Christian Charity", which is our "Cultural Legacy".
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Isn't the Christian idea of 'original sin' simply a way of explaining that human beings are flawed? There is also the fact that as with all other living organisms that the genetic make up of some humans can make them 'bad', either subject to certain diseases or in some cases to criminality. And all of us probably have some genetic weaknesses as well as strengths. Idea that new born humans are tabula rasa on which the 'environment' can impose a personality is wrong in my opinion.
"Isn't the Christian idea of 'original sin' simply a way of explaining that human beings are flawed?"
No it isn't.
It is mind control by a cult.
Same techniques are used by the Moonies or Scientologists and the rest of them.
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What I mean is that it is a myth to explain in spiritual terms something that is intrinsic to human nature, ie. that it is flawed and that we inherit both good and bad traits. That is really the core of what is being discussed.
High Crime Areas of cities = High Poverty Areas of cities.
Same the world over.
Simple as that.
No religious hocus-pocus needed.