The short answer is some guy who decides he needs a new set of hubcaps and a car stereo, and figures ripping off a few old ladies (they don't fight back) is easier than working for it.
In the universe you live in, where evil, free will, and choice don't exist, if someone commits a crime, obviously "society" is to blame, and if only "society" had done its job, either the criminal would never have become a criminal in the first place, or somehow the victim would have been protected.
This is not surprising. I see the same mindset in foreign policy, and the writings are full of reasons why Japan would never have attacked us, Pol Pot would never killed a third of his population, or the U.S.S.R. would never have become a militaristic home for gulags--if only they hadn't been "forced" into it, probably by something America and the capitalist West did to them.
Surely if Zarqawi had had a better childhood, he wouldn't be sawing the heads off of screaming victims now.
Current Events » in reply to OK, give me a situation where someone commits a crime and there is no failure of "the system" at all involved
I'm sorry, we seem to be operating on completely different wavelengths.
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- And one last bit on the armor flap...
- Okay, a bit more.
- From here on out, I don't want to hear anything further from you about 'The Troops'
- And they qualify---must be part of Homeland Security
- Hummers as a business write-off?
- So, I show the entire flap was largely baseless, and that's your comeback? (n/t)
- You showed nothing--you merely found an apologist to get the spin that reinforced this admin..... (n/t)
- Yeah, what the hell would the Defense Department know about it? (n/t)
- Enough to know their jobs are on the line if they come up with the wrong answer.
- Shot at
- Being shot at is being in the wrong place at the right time......
- re: Being shot at
- And war is always about the failure of the political process.......... (n/t)
- I'd like to think you're too intelligent for crappy cliches like that.
- And war is always about the failure of the political process.......... (n/t)
- re: Being shot at
- Being shot at is being in the wrong place at the right time......
- Shot at
- Enough to know their jobs are on the line if they come up with the wrong answer.
- Yeah, what the hell would the Defense Department know about it? (n/t)
- You showed nothing--you merely found an apologist to get the spin that reinforced this admin..... (n/t)