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    Cause of crime in the U.S. found!! And no it isn't guns

    MyWay
    http://reuters.myway.com/article/20050218/2005-02-18T190902Z_01_N18365455_RTRIDST_0_NEWS-HEALTH-LEAD-DC.html


    lead!!! You know, the stuff that gets in the environment from big industrial business. It gets in kids systems, and affects development of the brain. The article is going on pretty thin evidence, but I felt I would post this anyways. While it's a long shot, I won't discount it entirely. Although I feel violent movies are the main cause. And don't give me I can watch violent movies with no effect BS- not everyone's brain is the same. Or could be a combinations, a lack of impulse control and an underdeveloped brain combined with violent movies... Some people probably think people act like that in real life when they watch movies. Some people are just plain stupid.
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    clearly the reason is violent movies, because human history was devoid of violence prior to the invention of the motion picture!!!!
    To us, it is the BEAST.

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      What are bullets made of? Lead! Clearly guns are to blame.

      /me clobbers nearest NRA member to death with a spoon.
      Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

      It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
      The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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      • #4
        Originally posted by Sava
        clearly the reason is violent movies, because human history was devoid of violence prior to the invention of the motion picture!!!!
        yes but crime in the U.S. far exceeds that of outher countries.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Dissident
          yes but crime in the U.S. far exceeds that of outher countries.
          and those countries don't watch violent movies, right?
          To us, it is the BEAST.

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          • #6
            Care to support that?
            Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

            It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
            The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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            • #7
              Originally posted by Sava
              and those countries don't watch violent movies, right?
              not in India.

              They watch those weird musical movies.

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              • #8
                Originally posted by Dissident


                yes but crime in the U.S. far exceeds that of other countries.
                replace crime with Murder. Britain has 10 times the per capita violent crime that we do.

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                  Last I heard, South Africa have several times America's murder rate.
                  Why can't you be a non-conformist just like everybody else?

                  It's no good (from an evolutionary point of view) to have the physique of Tarzan if you have the sex drive of a philosopher. -- Michael Ruse
                  The Nedaverse I can accept, but not the Berzaverse. There can only be so many alternate realities. -- Elok

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                  • #10
                    It's not guns, movies or pollution... it's women!

                    Page has gone | New Scientist
                    http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn4469

                    Pretty women scramble men's ability to assess the future

                    Psychologists in Canada have finally proved what women have long suspected - men really are irrational enough to risk entire kingdoms to catch sight of a beautiful face.

                    Biologists have long known that animals prefer immediate rewards to greater ones in the future. This process, known as "discounting the future", is found in humans too and is fundamental to many economic models.

                    Resources have a value to individuals that changes through time. For example, immediately available cash is generally worth more than the same amount would be in the future. But greater amounts of money in the future would be worth waiting for under so-called 'rational' discounting.

                    But some people, such as drug addicts, show 'irrational' discounting. For example, preferring a small amount of heroin today rather than a greater amount in the future.

                    Margo Wilson and Martin Daly of McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada decided to investigate discounting behaviour and see if it varied with sexual mood.

                    Male students, when shown pictures of pretty women, were more likely to opt for short-term economic gain than wait for a better reward in the future.

                    Sexual opportunity
                    Both male and female students at McMaster University were shown pictures of the opposite sex of varying attractiveness taken from the website 'Hot or Not'. The 209 students were then offered the chance to win a reward. They could either accept a cheque for between $15 and $35 tomorrow or one for $50-$75 at a variable point in the future.

                    Wilson and Daly found that male students shown the pictures of averagely attractive women showed exponential discounting of the future value of the reward. This indicated that they had made a rational decision. When male students were shown pictures of pretty women, they discounted the future value of the reward in an "irrational" way - they would opt for the smaller amount of money available the next day rather than wait for a much bigger reward.

                    Women, by contrast, made equally rational decisions whether they had been shown pictures of handsome men or those of average attractiveness.

                    "We have not elucidated the psychological mechanisms mediating our results," says Margo Wilson. "But we hypothesise that viewing pictures of pretty women was mildly arousing, activating neural mechanisms associated with cues of sexual opportunity."

                    Tommaso Pizzari, an evolutionary biologist at Leeds University, offers another possible explanation: "If there's the prospect of getting a very attractive partner it may pay a man to take more risks than if an average partner was available."

                    He told New Scientist: "If this is a response to sexual selection then you would expect men who are less attractive to take more risks. If you have many attractive potential partners then it does not pay to take risks. If you are less attractive, with few potential partners, then it pays to take risks."
                    I would wager many women act irrational when they see an attractive woman too....

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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by Dissident


                      not in India.

                      They watch those weird musical movies.
                      Where melodic crime is rampant.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by Last Conformist
                        Last I heard, South Africa have several times America's murder rate.
                        perhaps they have a lead problem as well.

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                        • #13
                          It's teh Bush's fault.
                          "Just puttin on the foil" - Jeff Hanson

                          “In a democracy, I realize you don’t need to talk to the top leader to know how the country feels. When I go to a dictatorship, I only have to talk to one person and that’s the dictator, because he speaks for all the people.” - Jimmy Carter

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                          • #14
                            "They could either accept a cheque for between $15 and $35 tomorrow or one for $50-$75 at a variable point in the future."

                            I'll take the money immediately Thank you, "some unspecified variable point in the future" doesn't really sound all that great, especially considering the decline in the dollar

                            so in conclusion that proves that beautiful women help us make more rational choices.

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                            • #15
                              Originally posted by Whoha
                              "They could either accept a cheque for between $15 and $35 tomorrow or one for $50-$75 at a variable point in the future."

                              I'll take the money immediately Thank you, "some unspecified variable point in the future" doesn't really sound all that great, especially considering the decline in the dollar
                              Conveniently unspecified for the reader, but perhaps not unspecified for the subject.

                              so in conclusion that proves that beautiful women help us make more rational choices.
                              Behind every great man is a beautiful woman... or
                              Beneathe every great man is a beautiful woman... or
                              A beautiful woman with a beautiful woman is great... or....

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