The laws are here to keep order, so they say. There is a law in San Diego that makes it illegal to pick through people’s trash. So a homeless person who finds good food another threw away, or something to use for shelter, can get fined or go to jail for trying to stay alive.
Where I live in SE Asia has no such law, and going through the trash of others is not seen as a bad thing at all. This practice is highly organized in Bangkok and well tolerated everywhere else I was. We sorted trash for the people who came by where I lived in Northern Thailand. We had a place to put it, and the owner put it early so people would have a chance at it before the main collector came by.
I don’t follow this subject much, but at one point the us had the largest per capita of the population in prisons and jails. And I guess these are mostly for non-violent crimes. After seeing how many of my son’s group on young adults ended up there, I believe it. For awhile there, if the kid was not dead, he or she might be in jail. Once you get into the system, it is hard to break free and start over. And of course the dead ones aren’t coming back at all.
And how about those law-makers? Pure as the driven snow – every one them, so the rest of the population is in good hands.
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