Collective Punishment

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFMqWil7lpzpCQwGXVPoixsT6ZMSEIEqHMEml7Qu4l5el7vg6IKEYYiG6WMDak8v4OZa6pR4mhsv3qsM_l9ZiOYsHrYso24Ka4sAGOGk_gBxH2ortuaUlc7fXYQ3SrOl3flrTtyRnYxOCU/" /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This statement immediately reminded me of collective punishments. Through my experience I find that they are most prevalent where children are involved like elementary schools or youth organizations like the Boy Scouts. These bullshit punishments penalize an entire group for the prohibited actions of specific individuals. Simply, individuals who have not violated any rules are disciplined because someone they are next to did. This does not teach individuals to stop committing certain acts. The only thing individuals learn from these punishments is that they are not individuals; that their lives have been forcibly tied to other men.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLHJo0aPjjSkFcfqpNHJU5y6D6MqxRl0iMUVRnK8X2QT4KeYKcQzm6TQE1QzsRAFEoT5A5MsN9T1i3mbpApKgfuDzO2NLsUrikWYIieNzz8VWMXeU6bTLcsfiCeZ0TA5g4V7UYQE2_IWE8/" /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div>Thus, they also learn that since all lives are tied to one another any individual can force another individual to stop committing an act for the sake of preserving the virtue of a human knot. Of course, this is completely false, and is just another source of the prevalence of warped morality.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR0jRj8KycUfinbkC39wEyPxQPVaqBhPn3HOFnSm-12cYb0lTdF1MnwFNtZDEOBuUjebnovyCUc2pcQ2ZoatkjRVb0MIiU9QfICajGUFQiPFdnbQHFXgdZqmxmTQ4Ujw5xdwozxSmE4X_W/" /></div><br />These false teachings were indeed the root of the student's comment. He was acting like an individual who had been punished this way numerous times. He now assumes all human lives are latched; thus, it is his responsibility, as one of the shackled, to punish all the shackled for some of them are having too many children. First, I am not sure if this is even a vice, and it certainly does not violate any individuals' natural rights; therefore, there can be no government regulation of the act. However, that individual is not thinking like this. He is thinking like the child punished with collectivism, punished for the vices and rule breaking of individuals next to him. Thus, he now acts and thinks as if that system of punishment is just. Clearly, it is not for it punishes those who have done nothing wrong. It punishes those who happen to be similar to others or near others at the time of the prohibited act. Subsequently, he now propagates that thinking. He is a teacher of this warped philosophy through his punishment of others. He is now a fountain of moral corruption.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9uCtVTwDJvKEsyVGcoDzURQ11FfhRwMONbX-fxoNqCvVnA3VbxWfVy_ShThcr_F95l0qrR2rZgwCNMrERamLK_Zu9MEnUr165qyjYpI66C_jcEBDGtvVnrFMCGIWIjm33Dokt3ox986QK/s320/stop_racism___unite_together_by_1___rob___1.png" width="320" /></div><br />Additionally, collective punishment is also somewhat like racism. In fact, racism is a form of collective punishment. In my post on racism I pointed out that it identifying an individual negatively based on the actions of his ancestors. That is partially it. There is also negative identification based on arbitrary physical factors shared by a group of individuals. In any event, they are both very similar because it judging all similar individuals based on the actions of a few individuals. However, since men are independent <span style="font-style: italic;">individuals, </span>using this collective judgment is irrational. Man's liberty separates him from other men. Therefore, if he is disconnected from a particular action, he cannot be associated with it, for his liberty allowed him to choose not to participate in the acts of other men.<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5DoIjVfsfto7x7MEX3yEQUNfIzdQj8AEWiw1AINPIE_ibvq7qwL2Xmxe2fq-BNygU_4V-tyrfHJZKAiR91p5boKtw-3VceiNpQoTtf_4H4HxYmXCCcYC3H7U6qoyL495qXEc_T9ETmZ4j/" /></div><br />This also holds true for attaching positive qualities to similar individuals based on the actions of some of them, or having pride in positive actions based on the fact that one is similar to the actual actors. Specifically, one should not have pride in his culture. He may admire the actions of particular individuals; however, he cannot say he has personal pride in them as if he participated in some collective act. In fact, there was no collective act. In fact, the individual is just riding on the coattails of another individual who happens to be similar to him in some way. One must be proud of his own accomplishments, not partake is a false collective pride that he earned only because he was born with similar physical characteristics as the actors. Once again, the fact that he has liberty, the fact that his mind is disconnected from the actor, the fact that he may have the choice to participate with the actor or not, indicates that he cannot seek merit for actions he did not commit. Essentially, collective punishment, judgment, merit, any form of collectivism is impossible without a collective mind; liberty, meaning independent minds protect individuals from collective punishment or judgment and bar individuals from stealing the merits of other actors. </div></div>

Collective Punishment

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