What public policies should be sought to address conditions that foster crime?

Who is talking about free money? Improving impoverished areas, better education, giving workers a liveable wage...that is not free money.

I agree with you on the drug war. I feel like it is a good example of class warfare. A black man from the ghetto gets 90 days for possession, and I can think of some rich white douchbag that got off a hell a lot easier than that.

 

romantacizing and rewarding immagination, creativity and above all the prioritising of the avoidance of causing harm instead of aggressiveness and gratuitios pseudo-conventionality.

people are influenced more then they realize by popular mythose and it is not censorship of that mythose that is needed but a greater diversity (which would in in better balance reflect that of the reality that surrounds us, the diversity not only of familiar living things, but of the rocks and the depths of space and even the nontangable)

a culture that romantacizes vindictiveness cannot help but perpetuate and promote violence.

nor are individual perceptions uninfluenced by international policies. when a nation claims right of international plunder it is unavoidable that individuals in that nation will many of them look upon their own surroundings in much the same way.

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I agree Sera, and I am all for improving government services such as education, healthcare, low income housing, etcetera. But I keep hearing calls for socialist policies like welfare, and to me socialism is a crime as it takes my hard earned money out of my pocket and gives it to someone who didn't work for it.

 

If we could improve the loewer class's way of life then there wouldn't be much of a need for something like welfare

Welfare is another reactive thing, not proactive.

 

wrong, gives it to EVERYONE... mostly beneficial to the poor who have been working all there life but still cant make it.

 

You always see something different.

 

Yeah, we don't want to end up in the #1 spot on the human developement index-, like naughty welfare states like Sweden and Norway.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_Development_Index

You should think twice about throwing around buzz words like socialism, and that stupid overdone meme; welfare recipients taking money from hardworking taxpayers. Welfare recipients are tax payers and most are only on it for a short time. It is barely a blip on the financial map of our national budget and only goes to women with children, I don't know why you focus on it so much.

Edit: I love y'all though, even if I disagree. If you see me getting all huffy like I do sometimes; it's about the issues.

 

But Huck

So what does determine a persons choice beyond external influences what internal influences are at work and where did they come from?

Also how do you know that your choice is determined by yourself or by your external influences?

And as Sera says if a set of social economic and cultural conditions bring about certain crimes should we not work to change the conditions rather than just contain the people living under them?


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So Balbus, are you saying that there is no such thing as free will?