Gratitude and generosity have long been correlated with happiness. Sadly, our current administration and social construct celebrates rudeness, meanness, self-centeredness and has therefore increased misery across so many realms. Fighting, one-upmanship and power have become the biggest and worst epidemic in history.
No one has ever suggested substituting tranquilizing guns for bullets. It isn't enough of a deterrent? Or is it that killing is the real goal rather than quelling an intruder or a rapist? And going into the inevitable "mental illness" arena is nothing more than allowing humans to wrap ourselves around the evil perpetrations of those who want to make their odious marks on society - if they are ill, it's not just a bad act done by a person. Instead, we identify the perpetrator as ill - out of his head - and look to magic cures such as psychologists or psychiatrists needing to prevent the bad acts via magic interventions. Trying to identify and stop perpetrators using the mental illness card is like predicting that there will be a needle in the haystack, going to look for it, and changing the needle's sharpness - this all presuming the needle is indeed a needle.
Gratitude and generosity have long been correlated with happiness. Sadly, our current administration and social construct celebrates rudeness, meanness, self-centeredness and has therefore increased misery across so many realms. Fighting, one-upmanship and power have become the biggest and worst epidemic in history.
No one has ever suggested substituting tranquilizing guns for bullets. It isn't enough of a deterrent? Or is it that killing is the real goal rather than quelling an intruder or a rapist? And going into the inevitable "mental illness" arena is nothing more than allowing humans to wrap ourselves around the evil perpetrations of those who want to make their odious marks on society - if they are ill, it's not just a bad act done by a person. Instead, we identify the perpetrator as ill - out of his head - and look to magic cures such as psychologists or psychiatrists needing to prevent the bad acts via magic interventions. Trying to identify and stop perpetrators using the mental illness card is like predicting that there will be a needle in the haystack, going to look for it, and changing the needle's sharpness - this all presuming the needle is indeed a needle.