Comments on: WEeds Ruined My Personality Test! http://micahtillman.com/2008/05/12/weeds-ruined-my-personality-test/ Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Etc. Sat, 11 Oct 2008 14:52:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Daniel Eltey http://micahtillman.com/2008/05/12/weeds-ruined-my-personality-test/#comment-2307 Daniel Eltey Thu, 15 May 2008 18:05:41 +0000 http://micahtillman.com/?p=373#comment-2307 Here here, Micah! Such is the life of a perfectionist I guess. But Jesus DID say, "Be ye perfect even as my father in heaven is perfect." Here here, Micah! Such is the life of a perfectionist I guess. But Jesus DID say, “Be ye perfect even as my father in heaven is perfect.”

]]> By: Jeff http://micahtillman.com/2008/05/12/weeds-ruined-my-personality-test/#comment-2295 Jeff Tue, 13 May 2008 16:28:15 +0000 http://micahtillman.com/?p=373#comment-2295 Perhaps this is an aside, but it seems to me that the problem is that we're multiple personality disorder around what specific theory we have about how to handle crime. Even assuming that individuals within the system have specific, consistent, coherent philosophies, as a society we don't because most people as individuals don't. I've begun to think that even the theories I hate the most would work better than this random-hodge podge of idealogies that we've ended up with. I suppose this is a road that has one ramp toward the town of believing in dictatorship and another offramp that leads to the town of giving up entirely, So perhaps I ought to just turn around now while there is still time. Perhaps this is an aside, but it seems to me that the problem is that we’re multiple personality disorder around what specific theory we have about how to handle crime. Even assuming that individuals within the system have specific, consistent, coherent philosophies, as a society we don’t because most people as individuals don’t.
I’ve begun to think that even the theories I hate the most would work better than this random-hodge podge of idealogies that we’ve ended up with. I suppose this is a road that has one ramp toward the town of believing in dictatorship and another offramp that leads to the town of giving up entirely, So perhaps I ought to just turn around now while there is still time.

]]> By: Amanda http://micahtillman.com/2008/05/12/weeds-ruined-my-personality-test/#comment-2294 Amanda Tue, 13 May 2008 14:28:27 +0000 http://micahtillman.com/?p=373#comment-2294 I guess you need some WEed killer. I suggest Round-Up. I guess you need some WEed killer. I suggest Round-Up.

]]> By: Micah Tillman http://micahtillman.com/2008/05/12/weeds-ruined-my-personality-test/#comment-2289 Micah Tillman Mon, 12 May 2008 22:07:08 +0000 http://micahtillman.com/?p=373#comment-2289 Sounds right to me. I know theories of punishment (rehabilitation, retribution, rectification, restoration, etc.), but don't know much about which particular theory (or conglomeration of theories) is being followed by which judges, which prison wardens, etc. And surely such debates <em>do</em> belong in the public sphere. It's just that they'd be much clearer if the debate participants don't pretend (through the first-person plural) that criminal justice is something they themselves do. It's something most of us can only talk about from the outside. Armchair Prison Warden. There's the job I want. Up there with Monday Morning Quarterback. Or "Expert." Zing! Sounds right to me. I know theories of punishment (rehabilitation, retribution, rectification, restoration, etc.), but don’t know much about which particular theory (or conglomeration of theories) is being followed by which judges, which prison wardens, etc.

And surely such debates do belong in the public sphere. It’s just that they’d be much clearer if the debate participants don’t pretend (through the first-person plural) that criminal justice is something they themselves do. It’s something most of us can only talk about from the outside.

Armchair Prison Warden. There’s the job I want. Up there with Monday Morning Quarterback.

Or “Expert.”

Zing!

]]> By: jeffsdeepthoughts http://micahtillman.com/2008/05/12/weeds-ruined-my-personality-test/#comment-2288 jeffsdeepthoughts Mon, 12 May 2008 20:50:12 +0000 http://micahtillman.com/?p=373#comment-2288 I think I understand what you are driving at in all this (then again, maybe I don't.) However, if they said "I think people in the criminal justice system are too soft on crime" wouldn't that imply that you're telling those people how to do a job you don't know anything about, doesn't that imply that you've got nitty-gritty, nuts-and-bolts ideas about how the prisons or courts should be run on a day-to-day basis? Although the word "we" might be your arch nemesis, doesn't the language in "We are too soft on criminals" evoke the idea that debates around crime and rehabilitation and whatnot, at least in the broadest strokes, belong in the public sphere? I think I understand what you are driving at in all this (then again, maybe I don’t.) However, if they said “I think people in the criminal justice system are too soft on crime” wouldn’t that imply that you’re telling those people how to do a job you don’t know anything about, doesn’t that imply that you’ve got nitty-gritty, nuts-and-bolts ideas about how the prisons or courts should be run on a day-to-day basis?
Although the word “we” might be your arch nemesis, doesn’t the language in “We are too soft on criminals” evoke the idea that debates around crime and rehabilitation and whatnot, at least in the broadest strokes, belong in the public sphere?

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