“Until you put these things to right, youre not entitled to boast of the justice meted out to thieves, for its a justice more specious than real or social desirable. You allow these people to be brought up in the worst possible way, and systematically corrupted from their earliest years. Finally, when they grow up and commit the crimes that they were obviously destined to commit, ever since they were children, you start punishing them. In other words, you create thieves, and then punish them for stealing.” ― Thomas MoreFor if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.” ― Thomas More, Utopia, Patron Saint of Lawyers and Politicians
Posted on: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:37:24 +0000
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