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I’m being intentionally vague to avoid blowback

• mmarian 1y ago
  Fair enough, but without going into specifics, don't you think history and geography has a lot more to do with it than culture?
  • unsupp0rted 1y ago
    It can be history and geography or magic fairy dust that generated the culture as it is in the here and now. And that culture is bad: worse than a good culture next door.
  • fuzzfactor 1y ago
    I would add that natural resources and/or control of resources can strongly shape cultural development (or lack thereof), and can often be intertwined with geography to a large extent. Also, history may not even need to be very intertwined for a major one-time event to trigger a proportional pivot in culture going forward.
  • iambateman 1y ago
    To get specific, if SC had the same gun-safety culture as NY, we could save several hundred lives per year. Now, the reason SC has our particular gun-safety culture has a lot to do with the civil war, which is history. It’s hard to disentangle what is culture vs what is history. But the bottom line is that real people die of preventable gunshot wounds because we don’t have the political will to do anything about it. Does that make SC worse than NY? In general I don’t know, but we certainly have a worse tolerance for violence, which is something I grieve as a South Carolinian.