| Eric5273 |
06-25-2006 06:14 PM |
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Originally Posted by PersonaNonGrata
I would say that in general, there is a total lack of personal responsibility in our society. People have been fed a steady diet of a sense of entitlement and they have gobbled it up. People just don't seem to feel that they should answer for their actions and there is always someone or something to blame for their misdeeds and/or lot in life. There are countless examples. I won't even get into things like blaming KFC for failing to warn consumers that deep fried chicken will make them fat. :tsk: Take the theft of your gasoline as an example. I'm sure the person(s) who stole it thought they were entitled to because gas costs so much now and you can better afford it than they can. The people who do things like that are the ones who have little to no regard for the rights, property, and dignity of others. That's stating the obvious but it all comes back to the fact that we live in a "gimme society".
Here's a real life example: A guy I work with gets a call from his alarm company that his home alarm went off. He goes home and as he walks in the front door, he discovers a scumbag burglar standing in the hallway, pockets stuffed with his wife's jewelry. The lowlife runs and luckily, some coppers had just arrived and caught him after a short foot pursuit. When asked, the degenerate tells the homeowner that he did it because he didn't have much and just got out of prison (of course!) and that the homeowner has more stuff than he does. :mad: Personally, I think that dude got off easy. If it was my house I would have gone in with my pistol in hand.
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I know you are trying to make a connection between entitlements and crime, but then how do you explain that the United States has much higher crime rates than all of Europe and Eastern Asia where they have socialist countries with many more entitlement programs?
I think you can make a case of exactly the opposite. Take a look at Russia and most of Eastern Europe as examples. Since those countries changed their economies from socialism to capitalism in the last 15 years, crime rates have gone way up. Entitlement programs have decreased during that time period as would be expected by changing from socialism to capitalism. Russia now has the second highest percentage of their people locked behind bars of any country in the world. Do you know how is first? Yes, the United States is.
I think you can make a better case of saying that there is a connection between poverty and crime. |
