[Neurons] 2020 Neurons #47 CRIMINALS AS HEROES?

Wed Sep 9 22:31:47 EDT 2020

From: L. Michael Hall   

2020 Neurons #47

September 10, 2020

Reflections on Politics #4

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CRIMINALS AS HEROES?

Heroes- what does it mean to be a hero?  It means to act on behalf of others
often at a risk to one's own life or well-being.  Heroes are unselfish,
generous, caring, and they live by higher moral standards. We think of
heroes as people who take risky behaviors- not to be recognized, honored,
praised, but to help, to save lives, and to prevent disasters.  Typically
heroes are actually shy about being honored- they do't think of themselves
as heroes.  They say things like, "I was just doing what I had to do."  "I
just did what anyone would do."

Who are the heroes today?  Often the average person who steps up in a crisis
and helps others without regard to themselves.  Today those who risk life
and limb in the military to protect our freedoms are heroes.  The doctors,
nurses, firemen, and first line responders who assist them in need - risking
their own health are heroes.

Let's now turn the question around.  Who are those who we can say are
definitely not heroes?  First on my list would be criminals. Anyone who is
doing something illegal is certainly not thinking about others and not
extending himself for the good of all others.  While most of us are not
heroes- we just mind our own business and don't interfere with others.
Criminals are on the other side of the bell curve- self-focused and not even
thinking about how their actions may negatively impact others.

Given that, what is this thing with the media?  Nearly all of the protests
are about criminals who ended up getting hurt or killed while doing
something wrong.  Yet the media, for the most part, hides that fact.  They
hide their criminal activities and records and as if that wasn't bad enough,
s they simultaneously promote them as if heroes.  The media publishes their
names, encourages marches in their names, and set up funds for them.  

Yet 98 percent of them are criminals!  Nor does this make any difference
about their ethnic background or "race."  Whether white, black, Hispanic, or
Asian- anyone who gets into fights with the police, resists arrest, and are
hurt in the process (which is almost everyone) were doing things that they
should not have been doing in the first place.  Almost everyone was engaged
in criminal behavior, but most of the time that is overlooked. 

Michael Brown was no hero.  The Obama justice department's report identified
him as attempting to wrestle a gun from a policeman who was sitting in his
car when Brown was shot- and that was after bullying and stealing from an
Asian store owner as the video showed.  George Floyd was no hero.  While
being arrested for using counterfeit money, cheating a store owner, and
resisting arrest - that's when his tragic death occurred.  Jacob Blake was
no hero - there was a warrant out for his arrest when he was resisting
arrest, he had previously been convicted of domestic violence and sexual
abuse. 

What's wrong with the media that they seem to glory in the idea of
transforming someone who was hurt or killed while engaged in criminal
activities and trying to make that person a hero?  And why are some
Democrats (especially mayors and governors) joining this.  Nearly every one
of the persons who Black Lives Matter say was a "victim" of racism was
actually a perpetrator of crimes against others.  And they would not have
gotten hurt, let alone killed, if they had been minding their own business
and if they were an upright citizen.  Calling a criminal a hero strikes me
as an Orwellian inversion of the very meaning of language.

Don't get me wrong.  None of the people killed deserved that!  And yes,
police need the very best training so that they do not use excessive force.
We all agree to that.  And where there is a "bad" police person, that person
should be fired.  But the great majority are well trained and are not
racist.  Police don't need to be defunded- they need the very best funding
for training, personal development, and equipment possible.

[This series on Political Thinking represents my thinking, and mine alone.
It does not necessarily represent Neuro-Semantics which is a psychological
model.   You can reach me at  <mailto:meta at acsol.net> meta at acsol.net   L.
Michael Hall, Ph.D.  For the book Political Coaching, see the link -
<http://www.neurosemantics.com/political-coaching/>
www.neurosemantics.com/political-coaching/ ]

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