badguybuster
07-16-2021, 02:03 PM
Written in 1940 and shockingly applicable to our current world.
CS Lewis:
Criminal law increasingly protects the criminal and ceases to protect his victim. One might fear we were moving toward a dictatorship of the criminals or what I fear is the same thing...mere anarchy.
According to the classical political theory of this country we surrendered our right to self-protection to the state on the condition the state would protect us. The power of the group over the individual is unlimited and the individual sumbits because he has no choice. The state in turn surrenders some small amouny of that power and gives the individual a little freedom.
At present the very uncomfortable position is this: The state protects us less because it is unwilling to protect us against criminals at home and manifestly grows less and less able to protect us against foreign enemies, at the same time, it demands from us more and more. We seldom had fewer rights and liberties nor more burden and we get less security in return. While our obligations increase the moral ground is taken away.
CS Lewis:
Criminal law increasingly protects the criminal and ceases to protect his victim. One might fear we were moving toward a dictatorship of the criminals or what I fear is the same thing...mere anarchy.
According to the classical political theory of this country we surrendered our right to self-protection to the state on the condition the state would protect us. The power of the group over the individual is unlimited and the individual sumbits because he has no choice. The state in turn surrenders some small amouny of that power and gives the individual a little freedom.
At present the very uncomfortable position is this: The state protects us less because it is unwilling to protect us against criminals at home and manifestly grows less and less able to protect us against foreign enemies, at the same time, it demands from us more and more. We seldom had fewer rights and liberties nor more burden and we get less security in return. While our obligations increase the moral ground is taken away.