the problems of the social marketplace: support the solution instead of attacking the supposed causes. Attack is in itself inherently a very weak attractor pattern (150), leading through fear to intimidation, coercion and, eventually, moral corruption. The “vice squad” becomes just that, turning city streets into jungles of crime. Objective examination reveals that most intractable “social problems” appear unsolvable due to the persistence of either sentimentality or juvenile moralizing.
