the society can no longer perform its most basic function. the reason we have societies in the first place, which is to protect the weak from the strong. that s why you have a society well in places like this it becomes, among many other things, very hard to travel anywhere. you just can t go where you want to go with legitimate authority in retreat, roads are not controlled by the police. they re controlled by armed predators. and the armed predators take exactly what they want from travelers because they can. this is an ancient problem used to be called highway robbery. and for most of history it kept people very close to home. turns out it still exists, but now it s called carjacking. carjacking is the clearest possible sign that your civilization is falling apart and that s where you find it in places like somalia and south africa. places where force violence and clan loyalty have replaced law and order, places where might makes right in the city of johannesburg, for exam
functioning civilization. and in lieu of them, it is clear that things fall apart and the only thing you can do is to put people out of the public sphere away so that other people aren t hurt by them. that s the best we can do. and it s obligatory that we do it because people are being killed. and if you don t do that, you wind up with a society in which 11 year olds treat carjacking like a sport because they know they can get out of jail very quickly. here s fox two in detroit. police arrested at 11 , 12 and 14 year old for stealing high end hellcats of the jefferson north. what they think it s fun. you know, they think it s fun and there s no penalty to it. head of the detroit police commercial auto theft unit, lieutenant clive stewart stunned over the trio of kids arrested monday right here on the storage lawn of the jefferson north plant. in a separate incident this just 14 years old and alleged