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Look around the world. The countries that have the most violence are: 1) Poor (Less to lose) 2) Have high levels of ideological radicals (beliefs strong enough
by zippy5 6y ago
Look around the world. The countries that have the most violence are:
1) Poor (Less to lose)
2) Have high levels of ideological radicals (beliefs strong enough to rationalize their worst actions)
3) Have a violent history. (Vengeance oriented)
- akimball 6y ago"Less to lose" is a pretty coarse attribution. While true tautologically, I would argue that it is misleading. The poor lack the power to institutionalize violence. The overwhelming bulk of violence is institutional. Large populations of poor imply small, threatened, populations of rich, who institutionalize the violence required to preserve their power, and then use their control to insure that their violence is left out of the accounting.
- zippy5 6y agoYou’re right. Poverty is more likely caused by violence than violence is caused by poverty.