Capacity for discernment

DescartesIn Discourse on the Method, he emphasizes that "good sense or reason, that is, the ability to discern the true from the false, is the most widely shared thing in the world."

I sincerely do not believe that the head of the Executive Branch of Maranhão is incapable of discerning what is happening in our state. It is not credible, therefore, that she cannot distinguish the false from the true, the real from the unreal; if not through her own knowledge, at least based on information from her advisors.

She knows, yes, that the blame for the chaos in Public Security does not lie with the Judiciary; the chaos stems, rather, from the years and years of neglect to which the State's public security has been relegated.

To argue, therefore, that the Judiciary is to blame for keeping pretrial detainees in Pedrinhas prison is, at the very least, childish. If there are pretrial detainees in Pedrinhas, it is certainly because there are no other units capable of housing them. Furthermore, pretrial detention does not entail any illegality. Moreover, no one with even a modicum of common sense imagines that pretrial detainees, if tried, would be acquitted, thus resolving the issue of prison overcrowding.

It is clear that His Excellency, with the discernment that every ruler should have, heard from his advisors the reasons why we have reached this stage, and must have perfectly understood who should be held responsible for the situation, even if security was not his area of ​​expertise.

Just to illustrate, I remind you that Platoin the dialogue entitled Menon, states that Socrates He did not hesitate to question a young slave boy about a geometry problem. The boy, illiterate, got the solution wrong; however, upon receiving the correct explanation, he understood why he was wrong and, above all, recognized the explanation as true. And he only recognized it because he had the ability to discern truth from falsehood, without which he would not have understood why he was wrong.

Bringing this philosophical passage into the present day, by way of illustration, I can infer that the head of the Executive branch may not have initially found the answers she sought for the chaos in the state's prison system, perhaps due to her detachment from these issues. However, I believe that, upon hearing the explanations from her advisors and experts, and given her capacity for discernment, she must be more than aware of the reasons for this debacle, this true barbarity that has taken hold in our state. Therefore, she knows that the responsibility does not lie with the Judiciary, because, historically, the prison system has been relegated to a secondary position, especially since, as we all know, the prison population is composed entirely of the destitute, of stigmatized individuals who have only deserved the contempt of the State, as if they were second-class citizens, deserving of inhuman and degrading treatment.

So why is he shifting the responsibility from his own shoulders and trying to place it on the shoulders of the Judiciary? Why is he bragging? Why is he dissimulating? Why isn't he taking responsibility?

Answer the questions yourself.