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What about Thieves and Other Criminals?

– Like many uncorrected people, I still have many questions, worries, and fears: What will happen to criminals, thieves, and other people who might use this delicate reality, built on an ultra-sensitive balance? What if they come and steal everything, and take over the whole system?

–Do you understand that half of the earth’s population is involved in this system? Who can go against it? Where are the thieves, activists, and criminals? They will be simply squashed by the masses and won’t be able to poke their noses out. Besides, they, too, will be offered a decent living, a salary equal to everyone else. I don’t think such difficulties will emerge.

There will be many problems, but they are all solvable because there is no other way for us to go. Nature is forcing us to solve them. If we don’t do what Nature dictates and don’t balance ourselves with it, it will be our end. You can intellectualize and philosophize as much as you want, but there is a law of Nature operating here.

Today, half of humanity is hungry and the other half doesn’t know what to do with all the extras that it has. Correcting this imbalance will establish a normal human society.

Most importantly, human society must be similar to Nature, internally balanced, kind, and good. Then we will no longer have to fear being annihilated.

– I understand that you don’t like the word “punishment,” but shouldn’t there be some sort of firm hand present, like a rod that if spared will spoil the child? From what you say, it seems like there is no place for this at all.

– No, of course there’s a place for it.

– In what form, how?

– In the form of very powerful social reproach. But it has to be weighed so it won’t kill “the human” in the person, so it won’t trample on his dignity. A person has to be influenced by respect, by public approval; he can’t be influenced in any other way.

The last, most notorious criminal is also proud, “I am a thief in my own right. Look at who I am; look at my jail! Respect me!”

There is no means more powerful on negative elements in society than to give them opportunities to elevate themselves, or vice versa, to place them in an environment that looks down on them.

They have an exaggerated attitude to their own “I,” which is easy to play on. They are really little children who can be manipulated in any which way by giving them the opportunity to shine, or to the contrary, by slightly upbraiding them, showing that certain actions will lower him in the eyes of others.

– I am an adult who is surrounded by children. Suddenly one of the children does something that makes me upset. Can I show the child that it upsets me?

– That won’t be upbringing. A child is raised by the surrounding environment that is equal to him. Therefore, your dissatisfaction has to be expressed through his peers. To him they are a respected environment and their opinion is important, whereas an adult is somewhere up above. His emotions are perceived by a child like thunder from the sky. You “thunder” at the whole world, but you are not next to me, you are not mine. So don’t step forward against the child and turn him into an opponent. That will just make his egoism bigger. Instead, just place him in a neutral position and show him the right way to act using an example of someone else.

The way to have an influence on children is by having them discuss, judge, defend, and research themselves while watching videos of their behavior. Show children fragments of their behavior and let them discuss their actions. That’s how a child will start to understand that if he were in that situation again, he would not act the same way.

The most important thing in our upbringing is teaching children through examples. This enables them to hold debates and analyze others’ behavior, and then relate this experience to themselves.

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