Ratchet goes to rat s#*t!

The way to introduce once unimagined laws is by initially promoting an extreme position on some issue so that when that position is rejected a lesser position is accepted even though it would once have never even have been considered. Hence the 'ratchet' con is introduced.

Some of the most profound coarsening of our culture has come about through a kind of ratchet effect.

First the law is liberalised. Then people get worried about the damage that’s being done as a result.

But then, rather than undoing the liberal attitudes which are causing the problem, people try to pretend this damage can be corrected by picking up the pieces once it has been done.

We have watched this ratchet effect time and again with sexual behaviour. First the taboo on sex outside marriage was broken, and sex was redefined as having scant more significance than a recreational sport.

Then concerns grew about the ballooning rate of teenage pregnancies.

But instead of guiding children away from precocious sexual activity, sex education focused on how to have sex without getting pregnant. The result: more and more children at ever younger ages are having sex.

Well, what a surprise!

Then we saw it with drug-taking. First, lax enforcement brought the law against drugs into disrepute. Then concerns grew about the increasing number of young people taking drugs.

But instead of enforcing the law, a new policy was introduced of ‘harm reduction’ which told children how to minimise the risks to their own health when taking illegal narcotics. The result: more and more  children taking drugs. Well, who’d have thought it?

If you doubt the work of a malevolent mind behind the introduction of these 'laws' then you are either naive, stupid or of the malevolent mindset yourself.