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Thread #87200   Message #1626152
Posted By: Little Hawk
12-Dec-05 - 11:21 PM
Thread Name: BS: Tookie: Say Yer Prayers
Subject: RE: BS: Tookie: Say Yer Prayers
Seems to me like almost nobody can stand things "the way they are", Old Guy. Only...different people find different aspects of the way things ARE to complain about, that's all. Depending on their personal slant.

99.99 % of people are fairly habitual complainers, in my opinion. Myself included.

The way to eliminate vicious gangs in neighborhoods is to greatly raise the standard of living and education of the people in those neighborhoods. That's complicated. It takes quite a bit of time. Impatient people would rather just keep killing the "bad people"...just like the impatient people in the criminal gangs do.

A "bad person" is someone who is getting in YOUR way in some manner. It's a matter of personal prejudice. The worse educated and more deprived your life has been, the less you are in a spot to make intelligent judgements about other people and situations. Ignorance and poverty breeds more ignorance and poverty.

So what are you gonna do? Just kill them all? Or imprison them all?

Good luck, charlie. You'll never have enough prisons.