Chicken or Egg?

      It occurs to me time and again how far we as a society have fallen when it comes to ethics and morality. Where respect and civic duty once meant something (not to mention national pride), these concepts seemed to have been ripped from the very fabric of the American Dream. It's a sad statement on the frailty of the scales of justice that cm unity has been left lying behind many.

      A grand example is the riots incited recently due to "police brutality). To begin with, the people who have passed have done so as CRIMINALS who resisted arrest. Once you step outside the scope of the social contract, you are accepting the potential for a negative outcome. Even still, once the criminal is caught, the gig is up. If someone has already broken the law and resists, there is no telling what might come next for law abiding citizens. I'm not saying that police don't overreact or never abuse their power, but by breaking the law, criminals put themselves in harm's way. However, current conditions allow sympathy for a villain.

       Then we have the "protesters" who riot and steal in the name of....? A peaceful protest is the American way, but when did that devolve into a cash grab? Even the premise of "black lives matter"....what about the many black lives that are being inconvenienced by riots and stopping entire freeways? Do their lives not count? The victim complex continues......

       So the police are at fault for trying to enforce the laws, the country is at fault for not .... Something, and the rules are fair because it doesn't hold someone else down. Self serving madness and the herald of the world not providing you the manner to perform CRIMES. Makes sense to me....