Admissions of Guilt

In their attempt to free themselves from responsibility for their own lives, people will accept and then attempt to teach others, anything they believe justifies them in their own irresponsible behavior. About half of all the nonsense being taught in public schools and propagated in the media is nothing more than a crass attempt to justify evil, not as evil, but as, well, as “something that can’t be helped.”

This is a wonderful thing. It is not a wonderful thing for those who do it, or those who are fooled by it, but it is a wonderful thing for you and me. We no longer have to risk giving these people the benefit of the doubt, which we would normally do as men of good will. We don’t have to wait for them to betray our trust, to actually commit the evil or crime they are capable of, to determine these are bad people and to be avoided, or at least carefully watched. We don’t have to wait, because they come right out and declare their evil. They wear it, proudly, like a badge, “I’m a thief,” “I’m a liar,” “I’m a cheat,” “I’m a phoney.”

It is not only character flaws that people publicly display, but every kind of flaw or defect, which in themselves may not be faults, but, when used as claims for favor or special treatment, become evil. Why would someone willing declare the fact that they have something wrong with them, or are they really unaware that is what handicapped plates and placards are do.

Everyone has conditions or problems that, under the right conditions, might be called handicaps. There is not one handicap which some people use to gain special favors, services, positions, and privileges, that others with the vary same handicaps, never mention, never try to cash-in on.

Again, we can be thankful for these self-declared warnings, “I have something wrong with me and I intend to use it to get an advantage over you.” Watch out!

Beware the man who makes broad moral judgments.

• The man who says, “everyone lies sometimes,” is a liar.
• The man who says, “everyone steals sometimes,” is a thief.
• The man who says, “everyone cheats sometimes,”. is a cheat.

Obviously, if everyone lies, steals, or cheats, that includes the person making the assertion, although, very often, we suspect they really intend you to understand, “everyone but me.” But, beyond the obvious admission in such declarations, one has to wonder about the kind of psychology that makes these kinds of generalizations. Do they really believe that everyone is a liar, a thief, a cheat. Do they really believe everyone is essentially immoral?

There are those religious individuals who follow the teachings of Augustine (Catholics, Calvinists, Lutherans, Wesleyans) who explicitly believe human nature is totally depraved from birth, though we have never heard one declare when seeing their own or anyone else’s newborns, “why look at the little depraved thing,” nor do they generally behave as though they thought everyone they met was about to rob, cheat, or lie to them.

Most people are more likely to give their fellow men the benefit of the doubt, because most people believe others are like them, and most people do not lie, steal, or cheat. (At least most people do not intend to do these things. The modern day social system puts many people in a position where what they do actually does amount to stealing and lying, but they do not really understand this and would be horrified if they realized it.)

Every individual who confesses his life is better with a government than it would be without one is essentially dishonest, incompetent, unhealthy, unreasonable, or without confidence in his own ability to supply his own needs and live successfully in this world.

The point is that healthy, reasonable, honest people, who neither desire nor seek more than they can earn or produce by their own effort, and desire no harm to anyone, have no use for a government. Only if a person believes he deserves more than he could have if his life and prosperity depended solely on his own ability and effort, and only if he is willing to get it at someone else’s expense, does someone believe they are better off with a government. Most people do believe this, but most people do not think it, and don’t want those at whose expense their life will be improved to think it either.

People who need people are parasites.

Lice need people.

When a lover tells the girl of his dreams that he needs her, he does not mean he’ll starve if he does not have her, he means, without her life would have neither meaning or happiness. When he says this, he believes it, although it is probably not true. On the other hand, when a man has been married to the girl of his dreams for forty years and says this, it probably is true. This is a specific need of one individual for a specific individual.

The generalization, “I need people,” is another matter altogether. It makes of people a resource, like food, clothing, or water, a necessity to one’s existence. Most people only mean they “want” people when they say, they “need” people, because they enjoy the company of people and desire the interaction and fellowship of people to be happy, which is to some degree true of almost everyone, and actually a human virtue. It is when they mean more than this, in the sense of an actual physical need, that the expression indicates something essentially evil.

The person who needs people, because without them he could not live or live successfully falls into one of the following categories, thief, con-artist, government employee, or welfare recipient. These people are truly parasites that need people in exactly the same way as the louse.

The expression, “it’s only human,” is almost always used to excuse some vile or grossly inhuman behavior.

If, “to err is human,” than the stupider you are and the more mistakes you make, the more human you are. By this criteria, our society is very human, but the most human of all are in jail, the asylums, politics, or teaching in the public schools.

I have been told that this is too harsh, especially the mention of public school teachers. (I have been even harsher elsewhere on that score.) I have been told, I would have more influence on people if I avoided iritating people unnecessarily.

I have no desire to influence people. On the contrary, if harshness will prevent me from influencing people, I will be as harsh as possible. The last thing in the world I want is for anyone to think or do anything because of my influence.

As for irritating people, that is never my intention, but if irritating them would wake them up, make them think for themselves, and do right, all the while hating me for irritating them, I would irritate everyone in the world. This I would do, but I am loath to influence them, which is the brainwashing/hypnotism method of education currently used in public schools.

Finally, my advisors give me too much credit. I do not irritate anyone. I make statements, which I believe are clear, concise, easily understood, and true. Now a lot of people are irritated by anything written with those qualities, but a lot of people are not. So, it is not what I write that irritates people, it is the ignorance of the people who are irritated, who have not yet learned what the people who are not irritated know. But, even if they are irritated, if they keep reading, and studying, and thinking, eventually they will learn enough to not be irritated, and even to enoy and profit by these commentaries.

As for human foibles, they are just that. The identification of faults and mistakes is not to excuse them but to correct them. While it is true that the only person who never makes a mistake is the person who never does anything, that does not excuse mistakes. It defines the correct attitude toward mistakes. We are certain to make them, because we are not infallible, therefore, we are not to be defeated by them, but rather, we ought to learn from them and learn to identify them so we can correct them and turn what could be a fault into a virtue.

“Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. Abstain from all appearance of evil.” 1 Thes. 5:21, 22