Melbourne CBD Incident

[Thryleon]

I suspect you're on the right track Thry.  More needs to be done to prevent people becoming a threat to themselves, their families and the general public.

I don't know what the answer is but I suspect that it's not expecting troubled or broken people to look after themselves.

Education DJC.

People are very quick to point out the ills of Religion (to which there are many), however Christ did state to treat others as you want to be treated.  I think if all humans at a baseline followed that one rule, we would live in a much better place for it.

I'm not promoting religion as the answer for anyone who is going to jump on me, although I am a Christian.  Bill and Ted even stated "Be Excellent to each other" if you want to ignore the Christian element, which is fine too.  We all benefit from being Excellent to each other.  Polite, curteous, non judgemental or supportive and list the rest of the positive ways to treat people here. 

The way we live our lives, is often in the negative headspace.  There was a movie called pay it forward, that was quite apt in regards to how people can really impact society positively.

At the end of the day, societal change starts with the individual.

Its the equality debate all over again too.  Simply treat everyone the same (how you would like to be treated in the same circumstances) and there you have it.  No more racism.  No more sexism.  Equality.  True equality. 

The death penalty is simply threatening people with the hell argument.  Some people are self destructive for reasons we cannot understand.  Usually because they were treated poorly to begin with.