i'm just sayin that pretty much every single person who has that same thought process will be completely content with other people suffering while just blowing it off as "inevitable"..... until it happens to them. then they go overboard playing the victim and being outraged at the apathy being displayed to them, when it's exactly how they've been acting all along. the tragedy is that it takes some cruel thing happening to THOSE people before they seem to care. it's practically the same thing as not learning from other's experience. you say "history tells us that crime is inevitable and therefore it's pointless to try and prevent it/do anything about it." whereas i say if we didn't do anything, how much worse do you think it would be? i'm kinda seeing a real world version of Mad Max, or Fallout 3; pick your own apocalypse story. i'm just sayin something has to be done, regardless of how pointless it seems in the long run. if nothing else, it's creating jobs (cops, firemen, doctors, etc) and it might just be helping to keep the world a slightly better place than it could be. you republicans like to have "faith" and not "hope". not everybody can be saved, and not every crime can be prevented, but the fire victim who was rescued just in time, or the mugging victim who sees their assailants put in jail, or the rape victim who was on the verge of blowing her brains out til she spoke to a counsellor would probably disagree that we should just give up. 

by voodoofrnchtoast on 02/09/2010 11:53:49 PM EST

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