>Being slightly flippant here. How about mandatory gun ownership. That way everybody knows where they stand.
There are those who would argue it would lead to a more civil society <s>
I think a case can be made that a credible threat of lethal force can teach impulse control and curtail inappropriately aggressive behavior in those that even the most well meaning of social workers and therapists seem to find outside their ken.
Many people behave badly simply because it is permitted and has no negative consequences.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
