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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: tejek who wrote (236006)6/6/2005 10:39:54 AM
From: RetiredNow  Read Replies (2) of 1571891
 
How do I reconcile it? I'll say it again. We try to put violent people in jail and have a culture of taboos around violence. Middle Easterners have a culture of violence and honor suicide bombers. Those are VERY big cultural differences.

What you are doing is like comparing violent crime in Saddam's Iraq to violent crime in the U.S. I am certain you would be able to point to statistics that said their were fewer thefts, drive by shootings, etc during Saddam's reign. So then your conclusion is that Saddam is running a better country than we are. But that's rubbish. Saddam ran an absolutely brutal dictatorship. People knew that if they got caught in the justice system of Saddam, they were likely to get killed. So crime was low. In a Democracy with massive amounts of freedom, as in our country, you can never wipe out crime, but you can keep it to levels that don't disrupt a functioning civil society and economy.

That is where you and I differ. You find surface level comparisons between Middle Easterners behavior and behavior of criminals in the U.S. and conclude that we are no better than they. But your conclusions are faulty in the extreme. You are missing the whole cause and effect linkage.
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