William T Goodall wrote:
>
> On Wednesday, August 13, 2003, at 08:22 am, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
> >
> > How would making our (I presume you mean the U.S.?) society "more
> > just" stop a would-be rapist from ever committing his first rape? Or
> > a pedophile from molesting his first young victim? Or an already
> > well-paid company official from embezzling funds from his company or
> > profiting by manipulating the market (think Enron or Wordcom, frex.)?
> > On the flip side, why are there so many people in our present
> > ("unjust"? "insufficiently just"?) society who live in poverty or
> > near-poverty who would never dream of stealing, dealing drugs, or
> > engaging in some other criminal activity in order to improve their
> > situation?
>
> Gotta love the honest poor! Helps if they are clean too...
But soap costs money! :)
Seriously, there are people in poverty who behave with much better
character than some people *not* in poverty. I could cite two examples
of people in the same town, who were related, in the 1940s, and the
biggest factor in *that* case probably was that the doctor, his wife and
sister-in-law were addicted to morphine, while the wife's and
sister-in-law's widowed niece and *her* children were not.
Julia
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