Discipline and crime
Sir, —In the wide-ranging editorial on discipline and crime (May 25), the writer very astutely noted that part of . the problem was the evil part of human nature, and the crimes and social breakdown that flow
from this source. It was further acknowledged that the process of civilisation involved, in part, the acceptance of laws of religions. But I feel even the editorial did not go to the heart of the matter. This is, surely, how can we arrest the growing lawlessness and selfishness which is being reflected in higher crime figures year by year and can only be attribted to the evil selfish part of human nature? Providing more education and enforcing more Christian laws may help, but the most adequate motive power for unselfish change is unselfish love, and the only adequate source of such love is God. Distasteful as it may appear to our humanistic pride, we really do need the unselfish love of Christ.—Yours, etc., JOHN D. CANHAM. May 28, 1989.
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