Originally Posted by
Midtowner
To speak to the subject, I'm not sure many on here have much of a concept of the sort of culture which exists in some parts of the city. The culture of poverty is just vicious. It is anti-education, anti-rules and almost a caveman like survival mentality. Life and morality have so little value to some, or at least they do as most of us with educations and middle class upbringings understand things. To be exposed to these people, there's a certain sort of hopelessness, deadness inside that really you can't understand until you've been in a really bad part of town at around 2:30 A.M., and been approached at a gas station by someone very openly offering to sell you a chunk of crystal meth. It's pretty eye opening. So long as we don't address the cultural issues underlying these murders, we'll be treating the symptoms rather than the disease.
--as to what the disease actually is, that's way over my pay grade.
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