This is awesome… not the way I’d train my employee, but these things don’t always work according to corporate’s plan.
And I like the way the story is presented straight up — no editorializing that I noticed.
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I personally think this matches up pretty well with my personal philosophy regarding criminal behavior. I’m of the opinion that at first, most criminals don’t really want to do what it is they are doing but are responding to some external influence that makes them feel they either have no choice or that the ends will justify the means. Even though man has a sin nature, there is still a certain pressure from society to be a part of an orderly system. It takes a crisis to break from society and do something reprehensible. If, a person can be stopped and reasoned with the first time they participate in a criminal act, it seems to be that more often than not future behavior of the like can be avoided.
Consider someone who comes from a fairly good home in which parents are willing to not just punish their kids into submission but to train them to meet a high moral standard. When these individuals are later faced with a crisis that pressures them to do something morally wrong, negative consequences will have a much bigger impact on someone is already trained to meet a high standard.
Now, someone who comes from a family in which positive training does not happen and the only consequence of negative behavior is punishment. This child simply learns not to get caught but does not understand the social requirements of a higher standard. So, when they break the law and get caught, they only care as long as the punishment exists. Once out of jail, they’ll just try all the harder not to get caught next time.
All this to say…parents, how about teaching your children how to be good instead of just making them not be bad?
Preachy time over…sorry.
If I knew the guy, I don’t think I’d be able to turn him in. I’m normally a “law and order” man, and I know I just witnessed a crime, but I wouldn’t drop a dime on him.
Unless he’d slighted me in some way in the past, of course. That’s how I roll.
There are a lot of degenerates out there who would rob us blind, thinking nothing of it. I don’t think this guy is one of them. He is, however, on a razor’s edge. Arrest and imprisonment just might push him over, dropping him into an almost unredeemable pit.
If he has a job, I would hope that he goes to his boss and see if some arrangements could be made to assist in his current financial crisis.
Community service–something meaningful–might work in his case.
I got all teary.
Got some babes on that news program!