What is the cause of crime?
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100 years ago we were poorer and drugs were legal and more people carried guns and yet crime was lower.
Wow.
When you are a statist facts suck don't they?
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both your mustaches are a crime
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Very true. We had lower crime a hundred years ago. No black lynchings, no domestic violence against women, no racial segregation, no legally sanctioned violence against children in the form of corporal punishments in school. Everything was hunky dory till the Big Bad State began to regulate. I miss life as it was. Lynchings were so very fun. I hate the state for curbing my right to beat my wife. Why can't more people see the beauty of a hundred years ago?
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Regardless whether one is rich or poor; it comes down to the state of the will. That is to say -- value judgments from 'moment-to-moment'. Ergo, the committing of a crime against the innocent is bad judgment.
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Jan, you are my new political hero.
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Belief system creates values,. Values create thought, thought creates action, In most criminals there is a lack of f values. Criminals come from broken homes. where there is a history of child abuse. Combine that with absent fathers, a lack of parental supervision, addiction to alcohol or drugs, poor education, lack of jobs, the availability of guns and you get crime. Poverty, drugs, guns, lack of parental supervision, all are correlated with crime. Class warfare is behind these issues.
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Most Crime is a performed for a reward, most of the time the reward is money or power. Lets get rid of the reward for crime and we'll see it vanish overnight.
See The Venus Project for and idea of what I mean.
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@harryogre I just quoted you on my Facebook profile. Thank you!
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What do we need to do to get you on a network? And which network would you accept?
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So you live in an inner city where drugs are legal and guns are legal?
No, I didn't think so. You live under the thumb of an overbearing state that controls you and your life.
Thus your state has served you well. It has done as was predicted.
And you prove my point.
BTW, if the inner city is so bad, why do you stay? Who forces you to stay?
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It's ridiculous to suggest that there is no correlation between poverty and crime. As pointed out by Engel's in the video, crimes are committed for a variety of reasons. Comparing national statistics between one nation and another can be very misleading, as different nations uphold different values. People commit crime out of choice, but their choices are affected by their circumstances...e.g. You need food, but you're poor and unable to work for it, so you steal it in order to survive.
PoohShoes 7 months ago
@PoohShoes ""different nations uphold different values"".Yes, values are the key variable."" People commit crime out of choice, but their choices are affected by their circumstances...e.g. " Agreed, but in the USA, they mostly don't steal because they are ""poor and unable to work for it".
janhelfeld 7 months ago
In the risk : reward and cost : benefit analysis below, any sane and rational person would conclude that breaking into the vending machine is a bad idea.
But we don't teach logical thinking in school like we should, so people don't think logically.
Conversely, there are 'crimes' which have such a benefit or reward that they should not be considered crimes at all.
The recent hacking of the global warming scientific community's servers and publication of falsified data comes to mind.
NOYBofCA 1 year ago
Proper values integrate cost - reward correctly. That is what a good value is ,i.e, a principle that integrates long term costs and rewards.
janhelfeld 1 year ago
Jan, crime is a calculus problem with elements of the whole making up the entire scenario.
LordAgonis 1 year ago
Proper values integrate cost - reward correctly. That is what a good value is ,i.e, a principle that integrates long term costs and rewards.
janhelfeld 1 year ago