Nalif opened this issue on Apr 26, 2005 ยท 42 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Tue, 26 April 2005 at 1:04 PM
The crimes are not as violent, perhaps, but they are far more insidious and much, much more destructive over the long term.
The crime rate isn't down at all. It's just gotten better at hiding what it does.
The difference is this: chances are, you can walk down the street of your upper middle class neighborhood after dark without being in fear for your life or for your well-being.
I wouldn't recommend trying the same thing in downtown Philly, New York, LA, or DC.
Or London.
As for being "much, much more destructive over the long term" -- I'd look at a couple of centuries of history in the US -- and the fact that more people are being successfully fed than at any other period in history........
.......as opposed to several millenia of history in certain other parts of the world.
Personally, I'll go for the "corrupt" upper middle class lifestyle, over the way that others live in the Jungle.
Sure, it's great to live in the jungle.......so long as you get to be the tiger. Or the mamba. Or the crocodile.
But not if you are the deer.
And there are a lot more deer than there are tigers.
Trust me......
Being a Tiger isn't all that it's cracked up to be.
Although some are convinced otherwise. Message edited on: 04/26/2005 13:05