relationship advice
Apr. 10th, 2019 04:45 amLoneliness causes misery. Prolonged loneliness causes harm. To prevent loneliness, seek friendly touch, honest emotional conversation, and second opinions on choices large and small.
Law Enforcement: After a Crime
Apr. 9th, 2019 01:05 amGovernment follow-up on criminal activity should involve uncovering and spreading verifiable information on the details of the crime, protecting and supporting any victims, and addressing the crime with the criminal, if a criminal can be identified. Interaction with the criminal should not take the form of punishment, as hurting people for the sake of those people being hurt is not kind. Rather, such interaction should be directed to other ends, including:
- Discouragement of the commission of crime for benefit, such as requiring the return of stolen property.
- Prevention of recidivism from a position of power, such as barring a medical practitioner convicted of fraud from practice for a period of time.
- Limited longer-term monitoring, such as mandatory meetings with a parole official.
- Opportunities to develop alternatives to criminal activity, such as an opt-out assignment to group counseling for anger management.
Criminals should under no circumstances be subjected to torture or other inhumane treatment. Nonconsensual restrictions on former criminals should be proportionate to the significance of the crime, limited in scope to affect only potentially criminal actions, and respectful of human dignity.
To any one who consents to being addressed:
I turn my attention to you.
By my reckoning
(yours may differ)
you exist as a series of experiences and choices.
In every year, and in the coming year;
in every moment, and in the present moment;
this is what I wish for you:
May your past choices lie light on you;
may you be open to forgiving yourself.
May your present choices be easy,
and easily revoked.
May your future choices be multifold and
painless.
May your memories be laid out
in the order in which you prefer they appear:
may your text-books' contents linger
and your ghosts be laid to rest
and your precious pictures preserved
in lockets.
May your present existence be under your control
and of the sort that encourages you
to be the person you strive to be.
May your future self be influenced by you
(the you for whom this was created)
yet not bound by your limitations.
May you be be surrounded
by people who are kind.
May you have the freedom to choose kindness yourself.
Let it be so, or let it be better than I have said; or let me try again.
(Inspired by this poem by ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
radiantfracture.)
