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It's our society that is better, not our people.
by thret 9y ago
It's our society that is better, not our people.
- cal5k 9y agoIt'll never go to zero, but in a well-off society you see mental health issues accounting for a lot of crime. In poor or chaotic societies, there is the added element of otherwise normal people forced by circumstance into doing terrible things.
- jacquesm 9y agoSocieties are not on some kind of monotonically increasing slope, they can regress and they can do so with astonishing speed.
- AlaskaBuilding 9y agoOurs feels like it is doing that right now. Even separate from the political issues, look at how many homeless people are walking my city who mumble, stare at the sky and are clearly suffering some kind of mental deficit, possibly on drugs too. There is no place for them to go for treatment.
- ShabbosGoy 9y agoSociety cannot erase the demons of our nature. At best you achieve a level of control that is fleeting.