Motivation to get better

One commenter on the endless and unfortunately boring parade of drug overdoses hits the BIG point.

Ya know I don’t believe anyone wants anyone to die…however most of us are sick of it. We give them no motivation to get better and provide more services then most of us hardworking folks can afford.

Motivation to get better.

Salesmen understand how to do this. Sample the product. Do a test drive. Let the customer FEEL the better car or better TV or better life. Show that the car or TV or life will cater to the customer’s needs and interests. Show how the product will give him pride and satisfaction. The words were overused and trite, but they’re exactly right for this situation because car salesmen were mainly talking to young men.

I was reminded by yesterday’s anniversary that I’ve discussed this point often in the context of prison. The young drug addicts are not in prison now, but they would benefit from enforced confinement WITHOUT ANY LEGAL OR CRIMINAL CONSEQUENCES OR RECORD. I proposed a Test Drive based on my experience in 1970.

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The basic PURPOSE of life, the GOD-ASSIGNED DUTY of life, is to make more life, more order, more value. Criminals, whether common thieves or bankers or government officials, are in the opposite business. Criminals destroy life, decrease order, ruin value.

In any discussion of handling criminals you have to start with the three sources of criminality, traditionally summarized as “the Sad, the Bad, and the Mad.”

How do we turn each of these categories from value-destroyers to value-creators, without adding more danger to the society of non-criminals?

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1. The Sad aren’t really criminals. They are young Deplorables who hope to gain status and COOLness by associating with the Bad. They start helping gangsters by stealing cars or small amounts of money, and the gangsters use them mercilessly because juvies typically don’t get jail time. When you can hire employees who frequently take 90-day vacations at state expense, or employees who don’t take vacations, you’re bound to choose the latter.

We can help them best by training them in a genuinely useful and marketable skill. We should force them to serve as an apprentice creator instead of an apprentice destroyer. In earlier times, before post-Christian idiots used the crazy concept of “rights” to ruin civilization, we actually did use forced apprenticeships, and they worked well.

PRIDE AND SATISFACTION. The genuinely useful work must yield a VISIBLE COMPLETED RESULT AT THE END OF EACH DAY. More often is better but daily is sufficient. After a year or so, the intrinsic satisfaction of DOING YOUR GOD-ASSIGNED DUTY becomes ingrained, and the daily requirement can be loosened. When you have the taste of doing your DUTY and getting paid, the illicit thrill of criminality fades. Long-term pursuit of goals replaces short-term impulsiveness.

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2. The Bad are innately criminal. They are born with a tendency to accomplish goals by destruction instead of creation. This is often described as something for nothing which misses the point. The pro criminal is willing to work hard for a goal, provided the work involves more harm than good. (See Craig Wright.)

Ordinary apprenticeships outside the walls won’t help, because the pro criminal will find a way to use the work for criminal purposes. So we need to develop and use their creative purpose in a more restrictive environment.

Even now, actual prisons often manage to provide this setup. Again the Sorosian “rights” monsters are constantly trying to get rid of useful work in prison, because “rights” monsters want criminals to be maximally destructive when they transfer to the Sorosian army. The only permissible skill is a skill that enriches Soros.

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3. The Mad are outright psychopaths who have no redeeming value, no reformable remnant. In the current situation we use their evil skills perfectly as hedge fund managers, journalists, CEOs and government officials. A few psychopaths are unfashionably delusional, ie paranoid about something other than Russia. These misguided madmen end up in prison or insane asylums. There’s no point in trying to retrain the Mad, whether fashionable or not. Just lock them up forever.

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