Charlie Rose

SharkswithfrikingLazers  06/28/2012 04:54 PM Report

Yes, where is the fairness?

Perhaps with the Oklahoma City Bombing compensation should come from the ATF budget, the FBI budget and the military budget. The military trained Timothy with skills in deadly force and the ATF and FBI lead the Waco attack thus creating a secondary effect by motivating Timothy.

With Katrina, it was the government again. A city built lower than the water level with levees that needed work should compensate the victims for their incompetence.

With the first World Trade Center the compensation should come from selling the natural resources in Afghanistan along with compensation from military and CIA budgets for creating bin Laden (he was one of ours). Perhaps we can tap into the Saudis' money too with their schools of intolerance and hate which create an ample supply of bad guys.

REMant  06/28/2012 11:40 AM Report

I never thought the oil spill thing was going to be easy. There's no logic to these efforts at compensation anyway. Recently a YouTube video of a 60-yr-old grandmother, a lifelong school bus driver and monitor, being harassed by her charges, led someone to set up a website which received $600,000 in donations to compensate her. Kind of thing happens quite often, the cost usually far outweighing the benefit. A teenager finds himself imprisoned in a foreign country, and the public wants to send the 6th Fleet and ten divisions. It is never fair, and it is not possible for it ever to be fair, because there's no way to insure or compensate all of us for every injustice. Mistakes always cost all of us, not just the few perpetrators, but that cannot be an argument for social insurance. The best we can do is to try to learn from our mistakes and keep from making them again, which is the only argument that can be made for punishment. Likewise, it is not possible for society to attempt to prevent every injustice. Not only is there insufficient information, there's insufficient capital, and what is taken away from society for that purpose, just makes the need for it worse. This is in large measure the real lesson of the current fiscal crisis. What we have to do now is cut our losses and put responsibility back where it belongs: on the shoulders of individuals. In other words, aim for an educational, not a service society.