Skullduggery is alive and well.

It’s fun to use an old time term that is so appropriate to today. Fun only means the principle is as old as history, but as short sighted as the latest neophytes with some education, questionable intelligence, and little experience. Some social classes think they have evolved, and they may have, at least in their mind. Some others still think there is a reason for police and fire protection. Even the French may be using their Navy to help fight off pirates in the Red Sea. And so many in the West use their movie experience about pirates as their standard. Hollywood screenwriters in the 1930’s writing about 200 years ago with Errol Flynn as the main actor is not history, thought it can be good movies.

The now classical debate evolves. Do we fight off the dregs of society, or address the issues that many think caused these dregs of society to try and often harm us. This question has been evolving for decades in the West, and is at a point where the proponents about addressing the issues have to defend themselves as they try to convince us their way is best for the world, forget cultures like the USA or Europe or South America. Some of us, many it is thought, prefer the fight the dregs approach. This latter group accepts, painfully, that a certain amount of humanity has criminal and egotistical values that will take down civilization, if allowed to proceed, as in be pirates, or shoot policemen in the performance of their duty. This criminal and thug group needs to be locked up to protect us from them. Along the way, all the do gooder social efforts to reform them to be like us can proceed. Just why this do gooder group can even exist appeals to our most American charitable instincts. Just how they expect to use our income, as in taxes, to do their goals is just amazingly amazing. The record of success is so poor. There are alternatives that work better for the common good.