[Platt] According to the U.N. Summary of Crime Trends, total crimes per capita are higher in the socialist countries of New Zealand, Finland, Denmark, Chile and the United Kingdom than the the U.S. So we can ignore the rest of his comments.
[Arlo] Not sure what "crime" is included in this statistic, but Wikipedia reports the US is 5th in the world in per capita homicide (behind Brazil, Russia, Columbia, South Africa and Mexico). I also noted this, about the report you cite. "Criminologists believe that a note of caution needs to be introduced into analysis of the data, because of the different ways in which UN member countries record crimes." Fair enough. But let's say the US is, in fact, leaps and bounds safer and has far less criminal activity than those evil "socialist" countries mentioned. Then what's the problem? Certainly we can't root out all criminal activity, but if we are so much better than the rest of the world, what's the gripe? Seems to me the problem is already solved. Indeed, FoxNews has reported that the US crime rate is at a 30 year low! (http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,132187,00.html). So what's the issue here? How is "intellect" failing us if we already have the safest nation on the planet? Seems to me "intellect" won. Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org.uk/pipermail/moq_discuss_archive/
