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Old 04-25-2008, 09:36 PM
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Originally Posted by UGAalum94 View Post
Well, I think it'd would be a fix if it delivered the results, but it's wouldn't be better than a society with low poverty AND a shared sense of ethical behavior and a willingness of its citizens to act on those beliefs.

But we seem to have given up on the idea that we can teach and enforce any uniform sense of citizenship or character.
Yes I agree absolutely. And you're right, if we could magically cure poverty which is directly correlated to crime, then sure, crime would stay low while poverty was low...until some other prompting event occurs which sparks the underlying issues we haven't been able to resolve.
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