When I went to graduate school, I was lucky to get a professor who taught me how to think rather than just focusing on the outcome of Harvard Business School case studies. The emphasis was on peeling back the onion to solve the actual underlying problem rather than simply treating symptoms. We as a country seem to favor wanting laws to treat symptoms, and we vote for politicians that want to make laws to treat symptoms.
We have wars on drugs and poverty. Our solution for both over the last 50+ years has been to throw money at both. We've done very little to solve the underlying problems.
We have mass shootings, and the proposed solution always seems to be gun control. A gun is an inanimate object. There are an estimated 400 million guns in the US. The number of legally possessed guns used in mass shootings is incredibly tiny, and we already have laws against murder, and against felons possessing guns. The underlying problem isn't guns, it's people who want to kill other people.
We have illegal aliens flooding across the southern border. The immediate response by some is immigration reform. What, exactly would that accomplish? We would still have the same problem, just on a bigger scale. We already have immigration laws that aren't being enforced. The problem isn't existing laws, it's enforcement of those laws. Want to add work permits, expand green cards, expand quotas? OK, that's fine, but that doesn't solve people crossing the border illegally, it just changes the number.
Everything has become incredibly political. Intelligent people get sucked into how to win the political argument rather than coming up with solutions that actually solve problems. Intelligent people get sucked into how to defend treatments based on party lines rather than peeling back the onion another layer.
I get criticized a lot by people on both sides of the political spectrum here. I'm fine with that. I'm not going to follow the crowd, and I'm going to think for myself. Sometimes I'll be wrong, and I'll look inside, and admit it. I'll try to base my views and decisions based on facts, and if the facts change or new facts come to light, my opinion my might change too.
Peace, everyone.
We have wars on drugs and poverty. Our solution for both over the last 50+ years has been to throw money at both. We've done very little to solve the underlying problems.
We have mass shootings, and the proposed solution always seems to be gun control. A gun is an inanimate object. There are an estimated 400 million guns in the US. The number of legally possessed guns used in mass shootings is incredibly tiny, and we already have laws against murder, and against felons possessing guns. The underlying problem isn't guns, it's people who want to kill other people.
We have illegal aliens flooding across the southern border. The immediate response by some is immigration reform. What, exactly would that accomplish? We would still have the same problem, just on a bigger scale. We already have immigration laws that aren't being enforced. The problem isn't existing laws, it's enforcement of those laws. Want to add work permits, expand green cards, expand quotas? OK, that's fine, but that doesn't solve people crossing the border illegally, it just changes the number.
Everything has become incredibly political. Intelligent people get sucked into how to win the political argument rather than coming up with solutions that actually solve problems. Intelligent people get sucked into how to defend treatments based on party lines rather than peeling back the onion another layer.
I get criticized a lot by people on both sides of the political spectrum here. I'm fine with that. I'm not going to follow the crowd, and I'm going to think for myself. Sometimes I'll be wrong, and I'll look inside, and admit it. I'll try to base my views and decisions based on facts, and if the facts change or new facts come to light, my opinion my might change too.
Peace, everyone.
