poverty and crime

  POVERTY AND CRIME 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3XYHPAwBzE

We need to ask if poverty impacts good child supervision as children may grow up to be

 thieves. Poverty might mean parents work

 several jobs so can’t supervise their kids.

 Or poverty could mean parents live on benefits and spend a lot of time with their children.

 So before we say poverty causes crime, we need to ask what  poverty entails

 for different communities? 

Poverty matters in lots of little ways, both good and bad. In the west, poverty doesn't mean the

 same as poverty in India where people literally live unsheltered by railway tracks in the hope

 of getting scraps thrown to them. 

You may ask surely if kids who live in poor

 communities were to live in more affluent areas, their futures would be different, and they

 would be less likely to be criminals?

 There was an experiment in New York, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Boston, and Chicago where

 this actually happened. In Moving to Opportunity, 5,000 families were subsidized to move

 from poor to affluent areas. The results were surprising. Ten years on, the boys in those

 families were 20 percent more likely to have been excluded from school than those who

 stayed behind. They were also more likely to have been arrested, though interestingly they

 were less likely to have been arrested for violent crime. In this case, moving poor kids to rich

 areas didn't make them less likely to be criminals, but it did change the type of crime they

 were likely to commit.

THE RADICAL LEFT AND POVERTY

People are unbelievably ignorant about history. What young people know about 20th-century history is nonexistent, especially about the history of the radical left.  They’re never taught anything about it in schools, so why would they be concerned about it? It’s easy to understand why people are emotionally drawn to the ideals of socialism, let’s call it the present day  left because it draws its fundamental motivational source from compassion.

But the leftists and the rightists do not understand the idea of fairness. That of accepting that something could be true even though it is totally different from your own idea. People with preconceived ideas whoever they are commit intellectual suicide because they believe that something is true because they want it to be true. I have learned with time that many assumptions are nearly always wrong because life is not black and white. Human life is complex. Nature is too. There’s a debate about free speech on many leftist university campuses. But what you don’t understand is it isn’t a debate about who can speak, it’s a debate about whether there is such a thing as free speech and the answer from the leftist radicals is that there isn’t. Basically, there is one idea and that's ours. This is as far as American universities go. For them , group identity is paramount. You have no unique voice. You’re a mouthpiece of your identity group. If you sway from the group identity then you are anathema. It is understandable in a way because both Fascist and Communist ideology is based on the group voice .

 But that said fairness is absolutely essential, an absolutely essential component of peace. Fairness can only exist if you will listen to the truth. Truth comes from the analysis of something. Idiocy comes from opinions based on zero or little knowledge.

If you will not then there is no point in engaging in discussion. For the left Poverty is about crime because with that argument you can quickly put the thing under the ideals you believe in. But poverty existed for years in many communities where there was very little crime so we can say the idea that poverty means crime is a weak one.

1. See the video. Give opinion

2. Would you steal something if you were a bit poor B ) would you steal something if you were very poor C) Would you steal something if you lived in abject poverty) Think about your personality.

3. Crimes are committed by professional criminals as regards stealing things that are easily transferable or spendable. Why do people assume that as soon as you are poor you turn to crime ?

4. People look for things that will support their argument that is already in their mind but go mad if they read or hear something that makes their ideas look silly. Why?

 5.Most leftists like most rightists tend to believe what they want to believe and anything else is a lie. Young people are brought up like this just as much as ultra-religious children with the same parents. So the point is they cannot choose but they are under the illusion that they have free choice but all choices are already organized for them. Whatever they see on TV they go for if it agrees with the idea they already have in their heads. They have little idea of fairness in debate and little idea of where the truth lies or how to find the truth. Do you think this is true? 

6.Because people can tolerate inequality, so to speak, or even revel in it, if they believe that the unequal outcome is deserved. The idea is that if you get a rough deal in life then you deserve it if you don't think like others.What do you think?