Blazed seems to be of a mind that there is no free will, that our path is determined by circumstances both environmental and inherited and there is no room left between these things for an "I" that makes its own choices. A mindset that removes personal responsibility and culpability from any discussion. A society that rejects personal responsibility and culpability is a weak and dying society. Societies that don't believe in these things will be replaced by societies that do; and individuals who do not believe in these things will not enjoy the success that is enjoyed by people who do.
Simultaneously with preaching that we are trapped in a world without choice, Blazed also preaches he/she has the way out for us. Neglecting that for those of us who do accept personal responsibility, we're not trapped.
The evidence for freewill is weak. There is actually more proof that there is no free will. This is your problem you believe in absolute truths based on your opinion not realising your making gargantuan claims out of opinion alone.
But I am not one sided either, I'm actually in a paradox state. The body and physical world is deterministic, the video I linked explained this well, you guys offered no counter examples besides your own forceful opinion that we do have freewill.
Humans are biological robots most of us cannot even control our ability to not watch porn when your hormones are settings off, ever tried a life of no Fap? There is so many times we feel guilty for doing something we knew precisely we shouldn't do or indulge in, but we did it anyway, if we always had freewill then we wouldn't always have a battle of willpower between our higher self and lower self. When you control your car to go left or right, it behaves exactly like you want it, it does not create resistance, although you still have no freewill as you can't just drive through traffic when you're stuck.
But as consciousness itself I/you do have freewill, but this is a deep conversation, and people can't seem to tell the difference between consciousness and ego (reality vs persona, Persona, The word is derived from Latin, where it originally referred to a theatrical mask).
The bottom line is the criminals are not separate from you, they are happening within
your consciousness, if we took away your eyes and ears you probably never detect a criminal ever again, the same way a blind person can never watch a movie or video game ever again.
The same way that Geralt a video game character is not separate from the NPC characters or his environment, it is all a video game made out of 3D graphics and coding, the only separation of Geralt is entirely fictional in your mind through the illusion of pixels. You actually can become aware of this with reality, you can become consciousness as opposed to a person, (there are countless books, and teachers that teach this very lesson, there is also ancient wisdom, from sages to prophets who said the same thing).
I gave my idea on positive changes to society, what the next generation of young people need to bring crime dramatically down, which is to become more of a green culture, we have education system that teaches nothing about life to our kids, nothing about how to meditate and distress, nothing about feeling into our emotions and figuring them out, nothing about compassion and well being, nothing about relationships, nothing about metaphysics, the meaning of life, and who we are, nothing about real world problems from, budgeting, spending, etc. I never even had a class that taught me how to job search and write a CV. We all had these very linear specialised classes that became utterly useless in our adulthood once we finished them.
We need parents, education system and centres with additional help for troubled youngsters to be on the same page about this.
But you guy's just want temporary changes like increasing police numbers, or powers or beating the **** out of criminals.
Honestly look at this thread, there are people making jokes and being sarcastic/aggressive, people high fiving each other, with "hahas" even though what I am saying is very positive in nature. Honestly you guys deserve the criminals! Keep getting butthurt about them. You guys can suffer with your negative newspapers and tunnel vision into negativity crap-hole that you, yourself is skewing with your own mind by simply focusing on the bad all the time.
Until people wise up and and take the recommendations above seriously we won't get the positive effects from them, because why would we build these positive infrastructures if all people want is just a Police Nation. And then years later people will be moaning about how brutal the police is because guess what, bad people will find their way into the force, and they'll beat the crap out of you or harass you when you give them lip.
