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Blood, like the sun: is renewable... up and until a point. /s People get all huffy when you suggest criminal activity isn't an innate trait of a person but due
by altruios 1y ago
Blood, like the sun: is renewable... up and until a point. /s
People get all huffy when you suggest criminal activity isn't an innate trait of a person but due to life circumstances and desperation, as if they would never steal to eat/survive.
It's an attack on a person's identity to insinuate that the only difference between them and a 'criminal' is one of circumstance. For some, such is too much to even consider. This is the real barrier to fixing the problem: a lack of imagination and empathy.
- mc32 1y agoNot innate but some people will breach mores more readily than others under similar circumstances. Some people feel deep shame and failure if they have to steal, others not so much. So there are degrees.
- altruios 1y ago> some people will breach mores more readily than others under similar circumstances > Not innate These two thoughts seem to be in conflict. You are describing an innate difference. I agree there is nuance. We are a product of our environment and innate nature. I suspect the environment is (far: by orders of magnitude) easier to change. I don't think we only need to change the environment, but I would venture the 80/20 estimation here... This says nothing for 'truly evil' people, which - I suspect - is a vanishingly small number of people. I also think that such people require a degraded environment to operate effectively (according to their goals) and by focusing on improving the conditions people are in: we remove a lot of leverage for those people to act as they wish (maliciously).