Reply #177: I think most people here know, and would acknowledge...

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that poverty breeds crime.

That's not the issue.

The issue is that nobody knows for a fact that the kid was starving and wanted the groceries to feed himself and his 12 siblings because his parents are out picking up aluminum cans to turn in for drug money and the only things in the fridge are rotting pizza and bottles of beer.

Some here are willing to admit that's a possibility even though they suspect something different.

But the crowd that reaaaallly wants to believe the storyline about the desperate, starving kid won't even entertain the possibility that it could be something else. No. They're blocking their ears and going "La la la I can't hear you!!!!" because they'd rather believe what they want to. Oh...and based on a second-hand retelling of the incident, BTW. Which may or may not have been embellished upon by the neighbor lady who may have wanted to "see" sorrow where it may not have existed.