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In reply to the discussion: Thieves in LA are looting freight trains filled with packages [View all]cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)No-one is saying the majority of poor people are criminals. In fact, criminals are a very small minority of poor people.
I am saying is the majority of criminals are poor. Due primarily to thier criminal nature and the other behaviors associated with that criminality.
But the idea that someone would turn to crime due to wealth disparity is bizarre. How would what someone else owns or make possibly cause anyone to turn into a criminal. That is like saying other people having girlfriends is what causes rapists.
If someone steals because they are envious of strangers that own things they don't they are horribly broken either mentally or morally and need to be incarcerated and possibly rehabilitated. They do not need to be released back into polite society to continue their antisocial behavior any more than a rapist does.