Does the government want us to commit crimes

Well consider that commercially advertised drugs, alcohol, guns, and pawn shops are not dealing in anything illegal. Are you saying all of the above cause crime?

I don't know why they make cars that fast, by the way, but speed limits are subject to change. Kansas, for example, did not have speed limits at one time on the highways, unless posted.

Your wrongfully using a universal THEY. There is no such consolidated THEM that fills your description.



The group of paternal lawmakers who created the speed limit aren't the same people who design and build and manafacture the car that's capable of traveling up to 150 miles an hour.


Once again, the lawmakers who write and finesse laws regarding controlled substances and determine which drugs are illicit and illegal aren't the ones who research, manufacture, and market those pharmaceutical medicines that bombard the airwaves for your attention.

Of course, I'm not delusional or uber-naive. I'm aware of the fact that the corporations who make the above legalized commodities are not completely mutually exclusive from the lawmakers. Lawmakers own stock in the companies, have these companies based out of their states, etc..., while the corporations spend millions on lobbying, political campaigns, pushing their product into government contracts, etc.... It's a flawed system but there is still separation between the two institutions.


Opportunism is the sinister side of our capitalistic system. But taken at face value, these so called micro-institutions aren't the source of evil if their population/clientèle use them in moderation. They're is nothing wrong with the occasional drink. Owning a gun is not necessarily an automatic compulsion for the individual to commit a crime.

Addictive behavior and criminal actions are common symptoms with the populations in these areas of opportunism. Removing these micro-institutions will not cure society of those ethical, legal, social, and moral transgressions from happening. The best way to prevent them from occurring is for society and government to provide a greater and stronger security net for those populations in need. And by security, I don't mean a purely literal law enforcement/policing system (though that aspect of security is still needed) but greater/improved access to social, economic, occupational, educational, etc... based infrastructure to lift that population out of poverty.

Take the all important UN Declaration of Human Rights. Perhaps one the most important document ever written. Great stuff is written there. All the promises but none of them will ever come to fruition because there are no compelling engines built into the so called declaration.
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/

What the tsar said. I'm awfully tired of seeing the "them" and "us" distinction being made as though there was some "they" out there running everything. That's an essentially paranoid world view. The world is not all of one piece. People who manufacture guns don't write the laws regarding gun control. Car manufacturers don't set speed limits. And so on.

If there is money to be made from it, it will be done.