Our youth need more love, not more jails

Every act is an act of love or a call for love. This goes from the baby’s cry to the high school shooting. If we had responded to his early calls, he would never have become the shooter. If there were enough love in a high school there could not be a shooting. We need to institutionalize love.

Love does not punish. If a society or institution needs to punish, it needs to examine itself, and transform itself so it can function in a loving way. We need to let go of fear. We need to base our decisions on love, not money.

The whole point of being a human being is to learn to love every other human being.

Let us rethink our world, and recreate it in love.

DAVID JENKINS

Sandpoint