Deviance

It’s like I always say: one preferences regarding right and wrong are only a matter of such when they butt up against the unyielding beliefs of others. In other words, one might have a perfectly good reason as to why driving over the speed limit or stealing is good for oneself in your particular situation, but another person, either the victim or (especially) the police, are rigid in their beliefs as they pertain to the general welfare of the people (i.e. of the United States), and can’t be persuaded in either direction by one alone, thus freezing one’s beliefs where they stand. So one is either wrong or one is right, and in the case of the aforementioned, one is dead wrong.

And on a most basic level, that’s all it is, a matter of who is and who isn’t flexible in their beliefs. One thing that seems to actually hinder that is this modern concept of ‘equality’. Ideally, we should all be equal – that is to say, no one should be mistreated for ‘no good reason’ -...