What happens in a society when freedom comes with no responsibility?
People who endanger others while they drive drunk or texting get light sentences.
A young white college student gets a slap on the wrist for a rape.
Fatal hazing incidents continue to happen.
Covid deaths soar while people refuse to mask or get vaccinated.
The number of single parent households keeps climbing.
The January 6 assault on the Capitol was just a lovefest.
The list goes on.
A striking story on the PBS Newshour described a small town in Mexico which resorted arming and training children as protection against drug dealers. We must help the drug addicted, but they are not all victims. Their choices feed the business that results in this small army of children.
We all make mistakes, big and small, and we must accept the consequences, big and small.In any society freedom is an empty notion without a clear understanding of responsibility.
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