If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and will not listen to them when they discipline him, his father and mother shall take hold of him and bring him to the elders at the gate of the town. They shall say to the elders, 'This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey us. He is a profligate and a drunkard.' Then all the men of his town shall stone him to death...
Blows and wounds cleanse away evil, and beatings purge the inmost being.
The rod of correction imparts wisdom, but a child left to himself disgraces his mother.
Deuteronomy 5:9
"for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me."
Deuteronomy 24:16
"Fathers shall not be put to death for their children, nor children put to death for their fathers; each is to die for his own sin."
William flew nuclear power
Nor will governments necessarily do any better.But it often happen that politicians who take economic decisions for cynical short-term motives end up doing more good than harm. By distorting the market in favour of renewable energy sources that are otherwise hopelessly uncompetitive with fossil fuels, the Germans will waste a lot of money and impose significant costs on taxpayers and electricity consumers. But in wasting this money, they will create businesses and technologies that are unlikely to be developed in the US and Britain, where governments feel they have to mimic private sector decisions based purely on financial returns.And by subsidising investment in renewable technologies, the German Government will accelerate the reduction of costs through mass production, allowing renewables to displace fossil fuels more quickly around the world.It would have been better for the world if Germany had directed its subsidies at replacing the 47 per cent of electricity it produces from coal, the dirtiest fuel of all, while retaining nuclear power. But in energy economics, the best is the enemy of the good. Germany’s abandonment of nuclear power is unfortunate, but it has no significance from a global standpoint, because France, China, South Korea, the US, Britain and Russia will continue to develop nuclear technology. Indeed, China, India and the US are investing large sums in new technologies based on thorium, a safer material than uranium or plutonium, which one day could revolutionise global energy supplies
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