Why Canada Needs the Death Penalty: Pair Wanted for Killing Calgary Policeman in Custody
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Under certain conditions, a considerably high percentage of humans would become murderers, assailants, rapists, thieves. That's why you live in Canada and not Russia with a bunch of low-inhibition Russian gangster thugs who don't give any fucks. I would have used El Salvador as an example but then you'd bring up race most likely. Portland and to a lesser extent Seattle are fairly white. And look at how much white crime there is there. White people are more likely to kill themselves or overdose on drugs when they lose the game of musical chairs than black and brown people. But you're starting to see a lot of white lumpens turn violent in Portland, Seattle, Vancouver, etc. You have too much faith in humanity if you think the losers of late-stage capitalism are just going to go away quietly killing themselves instead of turning the knife or gun on you. High levels of poverty if not income inequality leads to a low-trust society.
If I'm a homeless white guy with mental issues and/or low IQ with no hope of digging out of a hole, what incentive do I have to not culturally enrich you in the parking lot with a lead pipe and steal your wallet? You have a lot to lose. The homeless man has nothing to lose. Do you want to live your life in fear of being culturally enriched at a moment's notice like you were a RPG character walking around in a game with random encounters? Society has to tackle the socio-economic conditions that lead to crime.
The problem is that government gets in the way far too often.
Thomas Sowell states that the black family began to deteriorate rapidly in the decades after the expansion of the welfare state under LBJ.
Then there is the fact that the USA can't compete with the low labour costs in China. That's part of the reason for a drive toward automation - price controls such as minimum wage laws don't work and for businesses to automate faster, reduce employment costs, or shut down entirely Less opportunities to earn money coupled with an ever growing influx of people from low-trust societies is a breeding ground for crime.
And I haven't even touched on the financial shenanigans of the last century. Wilson and Nixon both sold out the West's future respectively by allowing the Federal Reserve to be the exclusive 'lender' and by removing the gold standard from the US, while still retaining position as the world's 'reserve currency'
This is literally a death by a thousand cuts.