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WCDT Strips 4336-4340 (25th-29th, August 2020)
oddtail:
--- Quote from: chris73 on 29 Aug 2020, 17:20 ---Generally speaking most criminals can be categorized as selfish with no empathy and manipulative with no long term planning
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When you have time to write a longer post, I'm gonna need a source for that claim. Because to me it's not as self-evident as I assume it is for you. What's more, I strongly disagree with this assertion.
EDIT: I'd also like a clarification of what you mean by "criminal". By default I assume it refers to a person that committed a crime serious enough to warrant punishment as per the law, and did it at least once. But maybe you mean a person who commits crimes repeatedly or habitually. If you refer to anyone who's ever committed a crime, we're entering uneasy territory, because I think one'd be hard-pressed to find all that many people who've *never* broken the law in a way that's punishable at least in theory. So I'm wondering what the threshold is for a person to qualify as a criminal.
Tova:
While you are at it, another question to reflect on would be whether the characteristics you're listing are a cause of criminality or a result of spending time in the prison system, or whether they are all correlated but caused by an entirely separate factor e.g. upbringing or genetics (or some combination of these things).
hedgie:
There's also the matter of money and privilege. The rich seldom have to face any consequences, and when they do, it's usually a slap on the wrist.
Oenone:
What I like about May is that she’s been trying her best to be a good friend to Momo and Dale, and has really tried hard to be financially independent. What makes her prickly is her pride. She doesn’t want their help not just because she thinks she doesn’t deserve it but because it embarrasses her to be in a position where she needs this type of financial and material help.
hedgie:
I don't think that it's just pride. Kick a puppy enough, and it'll even snap at innocents that try to help it.
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