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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll get the ball rolling

I'll listen if people take ownership for their behavior and quit playing the victim card
I'll listen if people quit blaming cops and blame the thugs and ghetto idiots of all races who cause all these problems

A quick caveat what happened in MN from initial reports is jacked up.  We need to wait until the final investigation to jump to any conclusions.
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Ummm, when people are shot dead by the police after being stopped for a "routine" traffic stop I don't know how they are "playing the victim".  Aren't they an actual victim in that case?  Oh sorry, you must mean when the police make excuses that it is a difficult job so if they kill someone that has the same skin color as someone that has committed a crime even though the person they kill has not committed a crime and the person that has is still out there ...

I see a separate issue of being why do people commit a crime.  Understand, the individuals killed were not committing crimes ...that is exactly why people are protesting.  If the police had killed a violent criminal people you would not have this outrage.  I'm sorry if you don't see the difference.  I can't help you there.  But I guess if that is your criteria for "listening" that means you really don't want to listen.  As to why people commit crimes and how to reduce crime that is a different discussion.  IMHO, those issues aren't something that a single person can tackle.  Poverty, lack of opportunities, addictions, mental illness, easy access to weapons etc.  Yes, there is evil, yes there is greed and there will always be people in ideal situations that will still committ crimes.  But is there something that could have been done that could have influenced a person's trajectory so they wouldn't end up committing a crime ..don't know.  And could I, not related to this person in any way, have changed the outcome, tell me how?  But since your criteria for listening is for me to personally solve world peace, end poverty, end hunger, etc. again, I would argue you have no interest in listening.  Oh, and lest you think I am saying that the person that commits a crime shouldn't be held accountable, that is not what I am saying.  I'm saying at that point there is a victim (the victim of the crime), high odds the person will return to crime and have less opportunity to be a productive citizen meaning there will be later victims.  Accountability is a poor comfort for the person that has been a victim, better is figuring out how it could have been prevented.[/quote]

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