> spending the money necessary to solve social problems There's a certain idealism descended mainly from Rousseau that humans are inherently good and if they c

> spending the money necessary to solve social problems There's a certain idealism descended mainly from Rousseau that humans are inherently good and if they commit crimes or act in dysfunctional or evil ways, it's because society has corrupted them. It follows that money and govt programs can correct all these problems (in reality, some vague maternal care instinct that often manifests as letting vagrants run roughshod over public spaces, if your community Walgreens is bare and you can't buy basic toiletries cause the DA stopped prosecuting theft you have no right to complain because this is simply late-stage capitalism, don't ya know). Meanwhile innocent people are routinely violently attacked by truly evil criminals who should be locked away in jails or worse. CS Lewis also treats this subject as a matter of medicalizing morality in "The Humanitarian Theory of Punishment" [1], where he argues that far from being sophisticated and humane, humanitarian notions of "sinfulness" (crime, drug abuse, the now commonplace social-justice attitude toward "thought crimes", etc.) ends up being dehumanizing and deeply disturbing: > Their very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be ‘cured’ against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals. [1]: https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ResJud/1954/30.pdf https://classic.austlii.edu.au/au/journals/ResJud/1954/30.pd...