Quote from Ricter:
I wake up feeling relieved. Centuries, no millenia of human work to explain Man's behavior, his history, well, we can "draw a circle" around all that. Parenting is the key explanatory concept. The real beauty of this is that everyone has parents, talk about comprehensive!
Prometheus, I know you lean towards the genetic explanation, and I can see the attraction, it's akin to parenting, ie. everyone has genes. But, consider this: the parents' genes came before the child's genes--again, we're back to the parents.
Thank you, both!
Quote from Maverick74:
Once again you say nothing but I see words on the screen. They just don't say anything. Ricter, can you do me a favor? Pretty please? Can you explain to me why during post WWII Europe and during the great depression in this country, people did not act this way?
Can you also answer my previous post regarding your possible racist beliefs. That is we have no evidence, none, that any of these people in these fight videos are poor. In fact, all the evidence points to the contrary. Are you assuming they are all poor because they are black? Can you please answer me this question. I swear to f*cking god I'm trying to have an intelligent conversation with you. I really am. But you NEVER answer my questions. I'm asking nicely Ricter, very nicely.
Quote from Ricter:
Of course I can explain it. Parenting.
Quote from Maverick74:
So you are basically refusing to have an adult conversation. Seriously? Are you not capable of having an adult conversation or it it that you just prefer acting like a spoiled child and throw a fit when you don't get your way? I asked you two very legitimate questions that speak directly to the points I am making and this is how you respond? Seriously?
Quote from Ricter:
We've gone through most other possible factors and you have shot them all down. So I asked you what you think it is, and you said parenting. I am forced to agree, logically, as it's the only thing left. Well, we have to admit of the possibility of factors we have not yet discovered. But for now, parenting.
This opens up a new direction for my reading, as I'm pretty sure I have seen history done is this manner somewhere, but didn't follow it. It's a branch of something we might call "psychological historiography". The experts probably have another term for it.
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No, I did not post videos of violent black people. I posted videos that were in the news THAT day. On previous days I posted videos of WHITE people including a fight amongst WHITE people in a Denny's over maple syrup! Yes, WHITE people. This was not about skin color. YOU made it about skin color by going out of your way to do a SEARCH on you tube to SPECIFICALLY find videos of violent white people. THAT is the difference.
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Dude, let me help you out here as I see you came flying into the room with your PC hat on. I'm speaking specifically how people act in a public setting. I don't give a flying f*ck how many drunk people, white or black, get into fights. So take your f*cking tool hat off, leave the room and re-enter with something intelligent to add.
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You post the videos of violence. Then I post videos too of violence, and say "This too" You reply to my post of violence like this:
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So YOU talk about skin color, and you do not talk about the violence in the videos I post.