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Citation needed for the idea that there was a golden age wherein healthy norms were formed and communicated, without at least the implication of backing by an a
by jessedhillon 8y ago
Citation needed for the idea that there was a golden age wherein healthy norms were formed and communicated, without at least the implication of backing by an authoritative enforcer. In what I know about such golden age references, one or more was true:
- deviants operated unacknowledged in shadows,
- society operated under the idea that there was an acceptable class of victims,
- an in group either openly or tacitly wielded the authority of the state
So I don't find the "why not let people solve their own problems at a societal scale" as being a particularly well-informed critique.
- rhema 8y ago>Citation needed for the idea that there was a golden age I didn't mean to imply this. There never was and will never be a golden age of people interacting, whether state or socially mandated. I do think that person-to-person and community-to-community scales better than state-sized laws in terms of choosing who gets rewarded and punished. The problem is that laws are hard to write that capture emerging social norms. The "no child left behind" act may have kept too many people in school (bullies that these new laws are targeting). Giving teachers authority to throw out trouble-makers seems like a better solution (for all parties) than outright criminalizing deviant behavior.