[sig226]

I have two problems with this. First is Kennedy's assertion that nearly 700,000 convicts a year return home, some may be bringing prison culture with them. These people did not become thugs in prison. They were sent to prison because they were thugs.

This is also wrong: "The homicides occur in neighborhoods where folks don't finish high school," Mr. Owens (O'Dell Owens, Hamilton County, Ohio medical examiner) said. "If you can't make the transition from learning to read to reading to learn, you're done." This is a false cause and effect relationship. He's saying that people will not want to be thugs if they learn. But that implies that the action causes the volition. That's untrue. They wanted to be thugs and they learned how to be thugs. If they have no use for school, all the school in the world will only anger them. Volition causes action. Maybe the thugs don't want to educate themselves because they are thugs.

[arthurus]

“Common sense” is not a part of the left culture. It is one of those useless ornaments of reactionary society like “thought” and “reflection” before Society can advance to the peace and security of artels and collective farms.