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And like everything else, I'm sure there are multiple factors contributing to it. But I always found this one to be at least logical.
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It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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That doesn't sound remotely plausible.Originally posted by kentonio View PostClick here if you're having trouble sleeping.
"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones." - François de La RochefoucauldComment
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This all just proves that Baby Boomers are the most selfish, immoral generation ever.Comment
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What's curious to me is that we now have a rather large population of idle young men, due to the sheer number of people who've dropped out of the workforce and simply stopped looking for work. Idle young men with no prospects are the group at highest risk for criminal activity. Is it just YouTube, Xbox and porn keeping them from going out and burning stuff? Or are they turning to self-destruction via meth and opiates instead?Comment
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How many guys did overall do service in Vietnam? Just curious, but maybe someone has some rough numbers before we all start a google orgy? (Which I'm too lazy for now
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Quick quote from WIKI, not 100% sure if this is accurate but seems consistent with other things I've read;
More than 3 million Americans served in the Vietnam War, some 1.5 million of whom actually saw combat in Vietnam.[392] James E. Westheider wrote that "At the height of American involvement in 1968, for example, there were 543,000 American military personnel in Vietnam, but only 80,000 were considered combat troops."[393]Conscription in the United States had been controlled by the president since World War II, but ended in 1973.
By war's end, 58,220 American soldiers had been killed,[A 2] more than 150,000 had been wounded, and at least 21,000 had been permanently disabled.[394]It's almost as if all his overconfident, absolutist assertions were spoonfed to him by a trusted website or subreddit. Sheeple
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The two biggest drivers which I saw were abortion and removing lead from gasoline.Try http://wordforge.net/index.php for discussion and debate.Comment
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Nope, it also is Massive Multiplayer Onlinegames.Originally posted by Elok View Post
Killing people in WOW or Counterstrike is less messy than killing them in the real worldTamsin (Lost Girl): "I am the Harbinger of Death. I arrive on winds of blessed air. Air that you no longer deserve."
Tamsin (Lost Girl): "He has fallen in battle and I must take him to the Einherjar in Valhalla"Comment
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I always figured crime rates were driven by the black market in drugs and the intensity of enforcement, ie breaking up the local gang leads to a gang war to fill the vacuum. But the abortion and leaded gas ideas look like they might also be factors.Comment
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Australia has had a similar experience to the USA with the rates of violent crime.Originally posted by Dinner View Post
Australia and the USA have both removed lead from gasoline.
The legality of abortion has remained unchanged in Australia so I am unable to see how that could a factor.Comment
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lead paint too... when was that stopped?Comment
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In the 1970s.Originally posted by Berzerker View Post
I think lead petrol was phased out in the 1980s in the West? (Japan was first)Comment
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I clearly remember our 1977 station wagon having the label, "unleaded gasoline only", so before that, even.No, I did not steal that from somebody on Something Awful.Comment
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Since Felch isn't here, I feel we should note that pot use by teens increased dramatically in the 90's.Comment
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Donald Trump saved America! I'm surprised no-one else reached that conclusion...There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.Comment
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