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Larry is amazing. I've never encountered anyone who manages to adhere so closely to the creed that morality and critical thought are diametrically opposed.
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You may be right and critical thought may not be part of his process. On the other hand, Larry appears to have a peculiar need for attention and exercises it by knowingly being an antagonist to those who express rational ideas on this type of social issue. He does the exact same thing time after time; never appears rational to the majority of us, and yet, in the end always gets the attention he’s after. It amounts to a type of symbiosis. He feeds others by disagreeing; in turn, they feed him by suggesting he has intellectual issues. Some people don’t care about the type of attention they get, but they demand it in a way they know they will achieve their goal. He appears to me to do this very successfully.
Back to the A theme of this thread: Several years ago in this area, the courts started to treat first time convicted drug abusers more as having psychological problems rather than as criminals. This approach was rare in the USA initially, and the area may have been the first in the nation to do so, but the approach has become more broadly used. I don’t know how many states do this now but it is considered cost effective and mostly successful. The goal is to treat the person as needing to dry out and also requiring counseling, so rather than necessarily putting the perps in jail/prison they mandate a state hospital stay and then on-going counseling. The perp has to pay at least a % or for all of the treatments. It costs the tax payer little to nothing. That is way better than supporting people in prison. If the perp’s problems persist they may get the all expense paid criminal's treatment after subsequent convictions. Again, this approach has reportedly had great success. They do not do this for convicted dealers.