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- [ The Fictional Parent ] [ By The GNN ]
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- THE FICTIONAL PARENT
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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- In Sweden, 1998, a seven-year old kid has been reported to the police for
- assault. Apparently, he delivered a blow to the stomach of one of his class
- mates in school. The assaulted kid's parents found this to be a crime that
- needed to be handed over to the justice apparatus of the state for further
- investigation. As a result, two police men paid a visit to the criminal
- kid's house, and interrogated him and his parents on a late Saturday night
- for several hours. The affair has been handed over to the prosecutor, who
- will decide if the kid must go to court for his deed.
- To one's surprise, these absurdities were highly appreciated by the
- people. No criticism has yet been put forward. On the contrary, everyone
- seems to agree that it is high time "to end the squeamishness that
- constitutes the community founded on the rule of law of today" (actual
- quote). A crime is crime, no matter the age of the offender. Crimes ought to
- be reported to the police. Hence, if a kid commits a crime, it ought to be
- reported, end of story.
- But what is a crime? An immoral action, one could say. Murder, theft,
- rape, assault, arson, conspiracy and blasphemy, to mention a few examples.
- But who is a criminal? If a meteorite falls down from the sky and kills
- someone, would we claim that this heavenly body was of the criminal kind?
- Of course not. Something is missing: the intention. Only human beings can
- be criminals, because only we can separate Good from Evil, Right from Wrong,
- and actively (intentionally) choose to act in one way or the other.
- Sociopaths and psychopaths are hard to label 'criminals', no matter which
- criminal action they perform, since they actually do not know that their
- action in question was 'wrong'. They lack the intelligence needed for having
- any kinds of Good or Evil intentions at all. (Of course, no immoral action
- can be justified merely because it was performed by a psycho; it is still
- an immoral (wrong) action, but it cannot be called 'criminal' if we agree
- that someone must have a genuine intention of doing wrong if that is to be
- the case.)
- There exists a sparkling clear reason why we use the term 'criminal',
- not 'wrong', when we speak about certain actions. And this reason is the
- need for intention of wrongness in the action. That a person was killed by a
- meteorite we might (if we adhere to some form of moral objectivism) refer to
- as 'wrong' (or 'bad'), yet without claiming that there existed any
- intention of the rock in question. But a criminal act is wrong, because it
- was performed with the intention of doing wrong. Accidents are not regarded
- as criminal actions, and if you take a minute to think about it you will
- understand why. If we blur the edges between these two notions, we are in
- deep trouble.
- As we grow up, we develop. What we learn to do, we learn by doing. We
- observe not merely that people are hurt when we strike them, we learn what
- this thing called 'hurtness' is; that it is a painful thing to experience,
- and that we partially connect 'pain' with 'something bad'. This is surely
- trivial, because hardly no one believes that we are born with all necessary
- knowledge in our minds? But if one is to interpret the latest debate
- concerning the contemporary task of the justice apparatus, people actually
- believe this. The seven-year old kid wanted to do wrong. He was well aware
- of the notions of Right, Wrong, Good, Evil, and decided to act evil. His
- fully developed intentions made him a true criminal.
- Well, I must have missed something. I had no clue that kids were so
- aware nowadays. When I was seven years old, I believed that Santa Claus
- existed, that Earth was flat, and that I was the centre of the world. If
- someone had asked me what the notions Right and Wrong implied, I would not
- have known what to say. I must have been extremely stupid for my age,
- contrary to the children of today.
- So you understand that I am ironic. Perhaps you say that "well, the kid
- did not understand what Right and Wrong was, but surely he will learn now,
- as the police visited him, that he did something wrong?" Oh, perhaps he
- will. But why could not the parents have taught him this simple fact? Need
- we start using force again to learn our children basic concepts?
- Psychological abuse leaves no visible marks on the body, so therefore it is
- better than fists and whips? I hardly believe this seven-year old kid has
- learned what is Right and Wrong, but I am convinced that the justice
- apparatus once again has successfully created a potential terrorist, a
- psychological disturbed individual whom will never trust authorities, other
- people or himself.
- Who is to blame? The police? Certainly not (unless you believe in lame
- conspiracy theories). If our society has been made in such a way that we
- find it acceptable that parents leave their task of raising children to the
- state apparatus, something is terrible wrong with ourselves. It seems like
- the name of the game today is to falsely believe that every part, every
- little problem, of human life can be securely laid in the soft hands of
- authority, even though they might not have the knowledge, wit and virtue to
- handle such problems. But why bother? Why blame oneself, when one can create
- the world in such a way that authority is always to blame for every problem?
- We have already separated the concepts 'state', 'system', 'authority' from
- ourselves to that extent that we believe that our world is built upon a 'us'
- and 'them' (were 'they' always works against 'us'); even though we are
- actually they, and they are us. If someone says that 'the system does not
- work' what he really says is 'we do not work'. But this he cannot say,
- because 'we' partially implies himself, and no one wants to blame himself
- for any wrongdoing.
- Even though it is a false thought, it feels good. And feeling is
- everything. Therefore: let us leave all problems to the justice apparatus.
- A seven-year old kid who strikes his mates in the belly is a hard-core
- criminal that must be punished, not educated and raised properly. Why let
- the real parents do any work at all, when we have got The System to do it
- for us with the help of legally approved bitch slaps and cold showers?
- All other suggestions are "squeamish", the antithesis to healthy Christian
- military solutions fancied by obscure federations as 'the moral majority'.
- Forget about intentions. Forget about complicated issues. Let us all do it
- the easy way. Let us not only create a fictional parent, "the justice
- apparatus" (or whatever you prefer to call the invisible ghost), but let us
- let it raise our children, and ourselves too. Then we can do as we please,
- life will be a nice state of joy and play, because we can always lean back
- and blame our fictional parents when something goes wrong. We never ever
- have to take any responsibility, we never need to think for ourselves
- anymore; complex problems lead to painful thoughts as we try to solve them,
- the simple remedy has always been intellectual drowsiness, ignorance.
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