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And here https://ovc.ojp.gov/sites/g/files/x...s/fact_sheets/2018NCVRW_UrbanRural_508_QC.pdf

 

Break it out town by town - crime rates correlate to income and age, not rural/urban.

 

This is not an argument about certain towns vs others. As a whole rural communities have lower crime rates. Don’t try to cherry pick and change the narrative.

 

I've lived in rural Texas for over four decades now, and the only time I was the victim of a crime was about five years ago when a cooler of beer was stolen out of the back of my truck. The keys were in the ignition, and they still are to this day.

But hell, it was homecoming night.

I went out to my truck the next weekend and my cooler was back....minus the beer of course. I couldn't help but laugh. I was a teenager myself once as well.

 

There's no need to make a phone call when you take care of business the old-fashioned way.

 

If you accuse somebody at the table of cheating, do you really think that everybody else at the table - or in the room - aren't going to take notice and start asking questions?

Peer pressure can be used for good.

 

In a 'just' system, yes.

When the other players have a vested interest in not losing? No.

When the other players have a vested interest in the cheater winning? Double no.

Look at Ireland from Cromwell to 1922. Laws were passed and rules were made that ensured all Irishmen - protestant and catholic, tenant and landowner - were second class citizens. Lord Wellington was hazed out of Eton, and like much of the Ascendecy went to France to be educated. Despite this, the Irish (by and large, with much grumbling) acquiesced to English rule. Sure there was a rebellion once a generation for 6 centuries - "calling out the cheater" in my metaphor. Those rebellions received some fervent support, but most of the populace simply stayed on the sidelines, hoping not to be collateral damage. The people were invested in the system, and even being screwed by it did not see a benifit in changing the system. For many it was "meet the new boss, same as the old boss", so why bother? Particularly once emigration was an option. And outside forces weren't particularly keen on meddling unless they saw a benifit to them (think Spanish Armada, France 1798, Germany 1916) as encouraging rebellion is risky business (see Loius XIV).

Going back to the metaphor - a player makes an accusation of cheating. The other players are either actively helping the cheater or are studiously ignoring the problem hoping not to get involved. The spectators in the room are highly disinterested. In a game, the player would quit, like John Galt going to his gulch. In the real world, a person can't "opt out" - except by death. So what is the "player" to do?

When you're hard pressed on the flanks and the center can't hold? Attack. Mutual Assured Destruction.

That is where the mindset of these two individuals is. They have no community, and view everyone as an "other", with no value beyond immediate gratification. They have disconnected from any sense of hope and are acting with no regard for any consequence from their actions. It is ultimate Nihilism.

I'm not saying it's right, because its not. I'm not saying it's rational, because it's not. I'm just saying "this is why", and it's going to happen more and more the further we degrade our social institutions.

A big reason for the degradation of our social institutions is the ever growing popularity of Ayn Rand and her twisted version of Objectivism. It is inherent in Andrew Tate and his ilk, it is trumpeted by the "business community", and it is bleated by the incels in their basement cloisters.

I believe in individualism and self determination. I also belive in community. Either belief taken to extreme is ultimately self destructive. It is Kant's "unsocial sociability ", a philosophy with many, many, many, many flaws - but one more suitable than that of "Atlas Shrugged".

 

You don't seriously believe the writings of Rand are what's driving the push for change in 2023 America, do you?!?

 

That’s a dangerous rabbit hole. There are all kinds of ideas that kids shouldn’t be exposed to. Exposing kids to harmful ideas is probably what led these two little sh it’s to do what they did.

 

Update:***holes CAUGHT!!
Ex-police chief hit-and-run: 2 teens arrested in Los Vegas