• rosymind@leminal.space
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    11 months ago

    Oh, I agree. She had a gun and thus a responsibility to keep it out of her kids hands. I read a bit more about it, and apparently she discharged the weapon a short while prior because she believed that her boyfriend was cheating on her. Yikes!

    Doesn’t change that we can’t recognize that this likely stems from many societal problems

    I think the world would be better, if we accept BOTH personal responsibility, and the responsibility that we have to others living in the society we all share. It probably won’t happen any time soon, but I can try to spread the idea

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      11 months ago

      That kid didn’t have mental health problems. He was just imitating how he watched his hopelessly retarded, selfish, dysfunctional and immature parents act.

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        11 months ago

        I would argue that one path to having mental illness is neglect. It could also be that he was exposed to drugs (or chemicals) in utero (which can also effect brain development).

        There’s a book I can recommend, but it’s a bit controversial.

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            11 months ago

            Yep, the US rate of knife crime is more than 7 times higher than the UK, and that is per capita

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              11 months ago

              Not sure what point you’re trying to make. Comparisons should be done per capita. Otherwise, it’s useless.

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                11 months ago

                Usually morons will point out how much larger our population is than the UK. I was stressing that the measure IS per capita, and it is egregiously worse.

                I was going out of my way to avoid people missing my point while adding more information, but there’s always someone…

                I edited my post