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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m so tired of hearing about lack of opportunity for these kids. We live in a nation that offers free education for kids until they’re 18. DC has tuition assistance for college bound kids. Families can access food, health, and housing benefits. There are childcare credits, job training, social programs, and many charities that provide additional assistance. At some point we need to stop blaming ‘society’ and start looking at the families. Parents-mom AND dad-need to step up. Communities shouldn’t tolerate the crimes their children are committing. Parents need to be held accountable. We can throw a ton of money at the program, but it won’t help until people take personal responsibility for their choices and want to better their lives-legally. [/quote]

+ 1 million.

Am I the only one that feels it's kind of insulting to act like people need this much "help" for basic life?    Like if we don't provide full time school during a pandemic, your kids will go out and kill someone?   When does this attitude start to backfire and becomes a self fulfilling prophecy?  The narrative needs to change from "we need to help people more" to " people need to start being responsible for themselves and their behavior".  At some point people need to make the right decisions regardless of what they claim is their victimhood status in a country that truly does offer so much opportunity.  Not that it isn't harder for some, but empowering people to believe they can overcome those difficulties (see PP that is an EPA scientist despite much difficulty).  That is the way to a better society for all.  Not more government programs amongst the belief that people need someone other than family and community.

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The constant stream of apologists who blame everything other than the perpetrators is endemic.  It’s as though these two humans had no agency over their own actions and were simply programmed by their environment.  That’s an insanely ignorant and cynical belief system that absolves any criminal from wrongdoing because they were simply victims of circumstance.  Alternatively if you were a rational, critical thinker you could acknowledge that while environment undoubtedly impacts human development, humans also exist on a distribution of character, morality and honor.  Some people cluster at the high end and lead wholesome, productive and honorable lives regardless of environment and some cluster at the low end and are simply evil people with no regard for laws, morality or even simple decency.  [/quote]

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