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Originally Posted by mgburg
The key is not whether the bailout is a "get out of Jail for free" card or not...it's what HAPPENS with the individual AFTER he/she is out of jail. Or whatever the circumstance.
Did they learn anything from the experience?
Did they change any life-pattern that was going astray?
Did they, truely, make a change in their path they were heading?
If yes, then it was worth it.
If no, then you have the current situation that we have to deal with every day...resistivism (sp?/word?)
Ask a parole board what they use as a standard for 2nd chances...
Ask yourself what constitutes letting the kids off a "punishment" for deeds done badly...
How many "unknown benefactors" have influenced your own lives for whatever reason, and you didn't know at the time, but do now? Do you want a "do over" that takes the other tract just to see how you'd have to deal with the outcome?
Each of us has a certain level of "acceptance" that we equally apply to all. Then comes the time when the "equally" isn't so...
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So what if the lesson to them and others is "If you are big enough, you can take silly risks and do silly things and you have a safety net? If there is no consequence, do you believe there will be a lesson for the most part? What will you do when the next company comes along and does some silly thing and is also "too big to be allowed to fail"? What about the next one and the one after that? Where will you draw the line at?
I believe the word is Recidivism.