{"id":265,"date":"2012-02-09T12:42:22","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T17:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=265"},"modified":"2012-02-09T12:46:09","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T17:46:09","slug":"crime-illegal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2012\/02\/09\/crime-illegal\/","title":{"rendered":"Make Crime Illegal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This design plays on the absurdities of logic and the confusion of means and ends.\u00a0 It makes sense to oppose crime in the vast majority of cases.\u00a0 This is a reasonable foundation for civilization: the rule of law. Of course, there are notable exceptions, namely, unjust laws and the unjust enforcement of laws that cry out for civil disobedience.\u00a0 No set of laws, no matter how comprehensive or well-thought-out, can fully capture moral or ethical behavior, let alone enforce it.\u00a0 With a simple proposition of making crime illegal, a simple tautology, being that which crime is commonly understood to be is,in fact, that which is illegal.\u00a0 The first of my desired effects with this design is to see the foolishness of applying ever-increasing illegality to address crime.\u00a0 This could be called the fascist solution.\u00a0 And I want to speak to anti-fascists solutions.\u00a0 As alluded to earlier with the case of civil disobedience to disobey an unjust law or an unjust application of law, morality and ethics are not equivalent to legality.\u00a0 Certainly, there are many actions that are legal that are not moral or ethical.\u00a0 Similarly, there are actions that are moral or ethical which are illegal.\u00a0 The ultimate difficulty of enforcing moral or ethical behavior through coercion, i.e., law enforcement, forces us to look beyond brute force or even social norms to gain moral or ethical behavior amongst any group of people.\u00a0 \"Gandhi<\/span><\/span><\/a>Thus, like many of my designs, the message poses both an answer that may jar some people’s current thinking, as well as a question, a more difficult question, regarding the nature of right behavior and how to create more of it.\u00a0 One of my favorite quotes along these lines is from Albert Schweitzer: “Example is not the main thing in influencing others. It is the only thing.”\u00a0 In the end, law enforcement reaches a natural limit in controlling others through physical force, coercion, violence.\u00a0 If we want moral and ethical behavior then we need to model moral and ethical behavior.\u00a0 Like Gandhi proposed, “Be the change you want to see in the world.” And as he lived, “My life is my message.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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