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Soja	Nov 20 2008, 03:29 AM
Gentle Water, Crashing Waves Posts: 5,172 Group: Global Moderator Member #451 Joined: October 15, 2005	Uh. I'm just going to go ahead here and disagree -- hugely -- with the notion that people commit crimes just because or mostly because they're in the lower class. You can say that, but you'd be discounting individuality. You'd also be wrong. While poverty does affect people's tendency to commit crimes such as theft in the name of survival, I doubt it has as strong an influence on rape and murder. Same for paternal abandonment. It's not a conscious choice? Bullshit. It's always a conscious choice. When someone does something, they very well know what they are doing. Whether or not they actually care is the question. You can say blah, blah, the social environment, blah, blah, societal influences, but nothing forces someone to commit a crime. That's why you have white-collar crime, violent crime, fraud, etc. All types of people commit all types of crime. Rich people rape and murder, too. Impoverished people abide by the law, too. It's because they want to, more often than not. Circumstances are very rarely an influence on people with any moral fiber. If people are in the lower class, it's usually because they did something to end up there. Then you have cases where people are just screwed; that does honestly happen. For my case, I don't plan on being lower tax bracket forever. I'm gonna haul myself out. As far as I know, anyone can do this if they try their damndest and are smart about making critical decisions.
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