Gay State Conservative:
Knowing a bit about Massachusetts myself, over the years I’ve never seen you ever to post an untruth.
So when you now write about South Africa:
“It’s not difficult to imagine that that stark difference could at least partially explain the incredible crime rate there...with whites *and* blacks being the victims.”
— I take you at your word, since I’ve never been there myself. But does poverty explain smashing someone on the head with a rock?
I grant that a beautiful girl may get raped by losers who can never aspire to attract someone like that . . .
. . . but why would poverty, or anything else, impel four strong young men to MURDER?
That is what I can’t figure out.
Unless they thought she could identify them, and that their country’s judicial system would do a thing about it.
I’m working this out in my mind as I type. I can almost understand eliminating the witness in the U.S.; but in South Africa? You’re the expert, not me.
“but why would poverty, or anything else, impel four strong young men to MURDER?”
Recreational murder is not rare among savages.
Be careful re whom you "trust" here.
Poverty is an excuse to murder, not a reason.
Being poor does not mean anyone has to resort to that kind of behavior.
Did it ever occur to people that crimes like that are not committed because people are poor, but rather people with that kind of mentality will always end up poor? The same factors that preclude them towards a life of crime preclude them to never making anything of themselves.