The 16 year old who jumped down three floors at the Danville courthouse, handcuffed, has died. It looks like suicide. And no Darwin award for that, either.
Call me soft-hearted but this appears to have been the last act of a life gone terribly wrong; he was appearing before the court, charged with beating his father; police in Avon said he'd attempted to escape and had spoken of suicide.
I doubt there is any government (or NGO) fix for this kind of thing; dour statistics tell us the troubled, troublesome and trouble-making will always be with us. But perhaps it's possible to push back a little, one on one.
It's worth a try.
What if I told you that abolition of parts of the government is the fix.
ReplyDeleteThe Welfare State is nihilistic.
Shootin' Buddy
I would not be at all surprised.
ReplyDeleteI'm with Shootin' Buddy, except I would change "parts" to "most".
ReplyDeleteHow does committing suicide not garner him a Darwin Award?
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm having trouble reading "I would not be at all surprised" to that question, coming from a prominent self-described rational anarchist, as meaning "Absolutely no way we should consider abolishing many (or most) parts of government."
Hi Roberta X,
ReplyDeleteI'd like to one-up Shootin' Buddy and Rob K, and put in for "all".
Dave
1. Pretty sure intentional suicides don't count towards a Darwin Award.
ReplyDelete2. I would not be at all surprised if Shootin' Buddy were to tell me that abolition of parts of the government was the fix. Which he has and I was not startled by.
Me, I'd as soon abolish all parts of it; but most other folks whine about it and it's just too much like taking a blankie from a very young child; they get all big-eyed and weepy and concerned about boogety-woogety men under the bed or some such childishness....