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Per Thomas Sowell and the constrained vision: The question is not what are the root causes of crime, but what are the root causes of civility. The question is not what are the root causes of poverty, but what are the root causes of wealth. The vast majority of human beings who ever lived were uncivil and poor; this is the default state of man and needs no explanation.

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TY (thank You) for prompt. Bought "A Conflict of Visions." MAY (italics) actually get a chance to read the darn thing.

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Exactly right. Which is why new ideas or "solutions" offered by intellectuals on how to "solve" crime will always fail, as opposed to the practices put in place by the distilled trial-and-error wisdom of the people who came before us.

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You're both EXACTLY 110% right! TYTY.

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