Naivete is not the preserve of the wet left-wing. Us libertarians (who share some of the so-called liberal beliefs of the left) have grown up with farms offering free range eggs for sale with honesty boxes alongside; we’ve worked hard and paid for our could-be free newspaper in WHSmith.
So I’m at-first heartened to see this on the BBC’s Magazine today about Honesty Boxes and then, when you get to the end, dismayed at the cynicism that suggests it is peer pressure and/or a fear of being caught that makes some people honest.
Oh well, so long as many continue to be honest and so long as society and its governors take action when honesty is absent, we can live in a more peaceful world.
But when will our governors punish those who harm others? And when will they stop imposing draconian surveillance measures while utilising a proven failed process that is called ‘rehabilitation’ in place of punishment?
I cannot find the good and great Alan Drew’s Prison Works website at the moment, but I’ll add a link here later.
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