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''Permissiveness''
·Curse of Western Society
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Do
you realize the PRICE we are paying for following permis–
sive social and educational theories? lt is time we looked at
results
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and the wretchedness which is sure to come if
E
VEN
bandleader Lawrence Welk felt
compelled to speak out.
He warned: "Permissiveness
and immoral ity in the United States are
very dangerous. You see it in the crime
rate. We've got to get back to Christian
principies and a decent moral standard.
The tt·end must be reversed if we are
going to save ortrselves."
America and Britain are
sick.
Unless
basic changes are made in our national
policies and individual lives, we are,
unquestionably, "sick
unto death."
Alarmist, you say?
No, we are dealing with
facts.
We
are dealing with national and historical
trends of ominous proportions. The
recent campus riots across America are
but a symptom of our sickness.
Who taught students to rebel? What
basic
social and educational philosophy
is behind the disruption and disarray
now so clearly evident in America's
educational system?
And why are our
marriages
sick? In
spite of more "freedoms" and
per–
missiveness,
why are college students
and other young people more miserable
and unhappy than ever before?
WHY We Started Down the
Path of Permissiveness
Most of the permissive parents, pro–
fessors and psychologists are, of course,
sincere.
They have seen the evils of
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Roderick
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Meredith
cruelty toward children in the borne and
in the school. They tell tales of cbild
beating
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of l ittle babies and grade
school children with welts all over their
bodies, or even broken bones. They
have heard or read of young people
whose whole personality and approach
to life has been warped and stunted by
harsh, rigid, unfeeling discipline in the
home
oc
school.
And this certainly has been a very
1·eal
problem over the centuries.
Then the permissives see the cruel
and inhuman way that criminals have
often been treated:
forced
to "confess"
uoder physical and mental duress, sorne–
times kept in jail for weeks or months
(in the past) without proper legal
counsel and often without even know–
ing the cbarges against them.
The sympathetic permissive sees that
often the criminal who has no money
oc
who comes from an ethnic minority
group is bullied, manhandled, given
short shrift and spends far more time
in jail than the suave, affiuent "city
slicker" type criminal who can hire the
best lawyers, get out immediately
on bail and often evade punishment
entirely through legal technicalities and
interminable appeals to higher courts.
Needless to say, all of the above does
happen -
and does need to be
changed.
B11t
how?
The Problem
The problem
is
that human beings
nearly always tend to "overreact." We
tend to go to one extreme or the other.
However, we
could
seek the safe,
sound, balanced "middle-road" solution
if we would think our problem
through.
Read this somber analysis of our
problem in the words of Governor Ron–
ald Reagan of California: "In our
humanitarian society we have safe–
guarded the rights of the accused.
Nothing horrifies us so much as the
possibility of punishing the non-guilty.
But now we have carried this to an
excessive concern for the guilty. We do
not call the criminal a criminal; he is a
patient made ill by the failure of soci–
ety. And since society cannot be tried
for its crime, why should he take the
blame?
"Permissiveness from cradle to crime
is our philosophy and what were once
considered privileges are now recog–
nized as rights, and first and foremost is
the right to adjust any grievance by tbe
nearest means at hand, be it rock, club
or fire bomb.
"Our Constitution has been eroded
by court decisioos pretending to extend
freedom to all when in reality they gave
license to a few. Guilt or innocence is
of less importance than the legal
niceties. The confessed killer of wife