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originally posted by: Boadicea
Culture definitely plays a part, but culture provides context only. Not the specific factor (again, for want of a better word) that makes one man choose violence as his course of action, while other men choose other courses of action. In the bigger picture, for many men it's choosing an actual lifestyle of violence and adversity, all day every day. It's not just a reaction to a specific situation. But either way, something prompts them to take a violent path. And I'm wondering this fully aware that the path of violence is not just destructive, but it's self destructive. There's no coming back once you go mass shooter.
I've often pointed out the prevalence of lead-poisoning in inner cities, and the proven links between lead poisoning and violence. I am wondering if there is something similar, such as environmental toxins such as estrogen and other endocrine disrupters, adversely effecting men in general.
originally posted by: LSU2018
It's a lame, retarded way of calling a white person a whitey (WY-T). It's a contemptuous and derogatory slang term for a white person, often used in a pejorative manner. Usually terms like that will get your post removed and possibly get you banned.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: Boadicea
And I do believe that if we did so, we would likewise be addressing whatever causes the racial disproportions in violent crime as well. My best guess is that whatever the problem(s) may be, and probably a combination of factors, there is a root problem leading to most if not all the violence.
I would like to hear your opinion on this. I'm looking from the outside. You have experience and wisdom I don't have.
The root of the problem started around the caveman days...lol. If you think about it a women back in the day spent most of her life pregnant, so pretty much 100% nurturing one way or another. Men were you hunter/gathers, killers etc.
Today, guns are a great equalizer and women are assuming more an aggressive roll, maybe more than you might think about.
originally posted by: LSU2018
This is all I could think about when you said that...
You come from a broken family and you see a gang as your family...
You are in a broken school system with no way to get out of it....
The poor prey on the poor...I have seen it time and time again....
Crime and violence is just a norm...
And why not? That is the big question...I think humans are violent by nature and that is why we are the apex predator... Our intelligence can over come that, but you can look throughout the world and see what humans can really be like.
...Hell go back to even the 1920s and before...
originally posted by: matafuchs
a reply to: Xtrozero
The fact you have him and a brother who was looking for his other brother and found him at the same named store just in a different location tells me that there is something very very wrong with this situation.
I know 21 y/o's who look 40. He looks like a over weight ME guy.
The mental illness excuse is in full effect but in Atlanta he hated Asians. It is all BS.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: LSU2018
Yes I know the kind... Wait, I lost you at "white". Didn't hear anything but "He is white, you know those whites"
You didn't know that there are 6 billion Whites on this planet?
originally posted by: carewemust
BIDEN CALLS FOR ASSAULT WEAPON BAN: www.foxnews.com...
I can assault someone with my shoe. Does it qualify?
originally posted by: FamCore
originally posted by: xX aFTeRm4Th Xx
Weird.... if you look at the mug shot and read the description of the suspected shooter (age 21!) then compare that to the man taken into custody yesterday and the confirmation that the only one hospitalized was in fact the shooter.. that person first pictured by media does not look like an average 21 year old. Lol he looks mid 30’s.. doesn’t add up
Can you link the mug shot pic? I'm not finding it anywhere.
My heart breaks for the families of the victims (and the victims lucky enough to have made it out alive)...
originally posted by: Boadicea
If that were the case, then it would be the case for all men, and also women. But it's not. It cannot even be chalked up to temperment alone, because the same person that would beat up a wall in anger and frustration would not necessarily beat up their wife, or shoot up a grocery store, or multiple massage parlors...
But, again, some humans, not all humans. And while not all men, and not all violent crimes, most violent crimes are committed by men. There's a pattern. A specific pattern.
It seems to me that we -- humanity/society -- are finding more reasons to be violent, rather than fewer. And while women may or may not be commiting more violence as well, I do find women excusing violence more often. A lack of empathy and/or an excess of self-importance seems to be growing right alongside the violence and excuses.
originally posted by: LSU2018
Heck yeah! All who commit a crime or say something mean are white somehow or another.
originally posted by: Xtrozero
originally posted by: Boadicea
Culture definitely plays a part, but culture provides context only. Not the specific factor (again, for want of a better word) that makes one man choose violence as his course of action, while other men choose other courses of action. In the bigger picture, for many men it's choosing an actual lifestyle of violence and adversity, all day every day. It's not just a reaction to a specific situation. But either way, something prompts them to take a violent path. And I'm wondering this fully aware that the path of violence is not just destructive, but it's self destructive. There's no coming back once you go mass shooter.
I've often pointed out the prevalence of lead-poisoning in inner cities, and the proven links between lead poisoning and violence. I am wondering if there is something similar, such as environmental toxins such as estrogen and other endocrine disrupters, adversely effecting men in general.
You come from a broken family and you see a gang as your family...
You are in a broken school system with no way to get out of it....
The poor prey on the poor...I have seen it time and time again....
Crime and violence is just a norm... And why not? That is the big question...I think humans are violent by nature and that is why we are the apex predator... Our intelligence can over come that, but you can look throughout the world and see what humans can really be like.
It is all fun and games until you are back against a wall... Cut power for 2 months and see what happens... I think in many ways we fake ourselves out in thinking we are not the killers that we are....Hell go back to even the 1920s and before...We were very different, we are like that lion that people pet to get a picture well until one day it takes a bit out of someone.
I have always said, you know that evil race that goes to a planet and rapes all its resources and eats anything that moves, that evil race is us... Humans are the Velociraptor or the mammal world....