One should not be rewarded for being a victim. America has become a society which has fetishized victims, so that being a victim is
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Honesty and the Simple Moral Code
“Blatantly irrational behavior is rapidly being established as the norm in almost every area of human endeavor. There seem to be new customs, new
Midnight in the garden of civil and criminal court
Men should be treated equally under the law, but that does certainly not mean that all human lives have equal value. Some people create
Intellectual Property and Justice
Intellectual property represents work, and should be protected at least as diligently as any other sort of property. Stealing music through an online file
Terrorism: Who is a Just Target?
A terrorist is someone who kills, injures, or threatens those with no direct connection to a military target, with the idea that the larger
Self Respect, Respectability and Crime
There are two kinds of respect; self-respect, and the desire to be respected by others. As psychologist Nathaniel Branden has said: “There is overwhelming
Cameron Douglas Rots while Ricky Ross Walks
In fact, sometimes rich white men serve harsher sentences than their poorer minority counterparts; the actor Michael Douglas is convinced that his son has
Why is there so much crime in America?
The following are the conventional arguments as to why the US is a violent society: – Widespread gun ownership, and lax gun control laws,
A Radical Solution to Overcrowded Prisons
Out of a current US population of about 316 million, about 0.7%, or 7 of every 1,000 people are in jail. That may seem
The War on Drugs
The root cause of the sky high US incarceration rate is the war on drugs. When it was announced by Richard Nixon in 1971,