She's a cutie, too. :eek: <img src=http://i.cdn.turner.com/dr/teg/tsg/release/sites/default/files/assets/smithkimesiamug.jpg>
I wake up feeling relieved. Centuries, no millenia of human work to explain Man's behavior, his history, well, we can "draw a circle" around all that. Parenting is the key explanatory concept. The real beauty of this is that everyone has parents, talk about comprehensive! Prometheus, I know you lean towards the genetic explanation, and I can see the attraction, it's akin to parenting, ie. everyone has genes. But, consider this: the parents' genes came before the child's genes--again, we're back to the parents. Thank you, both!
Once again you say nothing but I see words on the screen. They just don't say anything. Ricter, can you do me a favor? Pretty please? Can you explain to me why during post WWII Europe and during the great depression in this country, people did not act this way? Can you also answer my previous post regarding your possible racist beliefs. That is we have no evidence, none, that any of these people in these fight videos are poor. In fact, all the evidence points to the contrary. Are you assuming they are all poor because they are black? Can you please answer me this question. I swear to f*cking god I'm trying to have an intelligent conversation with you. I really am. But you NEVER answer my questions. I'm asking nicely Ricter, very nicely.
So you are basically refusing to have an adult conversation. Seriously? Are you not capable of having an adult conversation or it it that you just prefer acting like a spoiled child and throw a fit when you don't get your way? I asked you two very legitimate questions that speak directly to the points I am making and this is how you respond? Seriously?
We've gone through most other possible factors and you have shot them all down. So I asked you what you think it is, and you said parenting. I am forced to agree, logically, as it's the only thing left. Well, we have to admit of the possibility of factors we have not yet discovered. But for now, parenting. This opens up a new direction for my reading, as I'm pretty sure I have seen history done is this manner somewhere, but didn't follow it. It's a branch of something we might call "psychological historiography". The experts probably have another term for it.
Ricter, let me try one more time with you. Parenting is not an answer for my 2nd question. I asked you, how do you know all these black people were poor? Your answer was poverty, as to the reason why these people are acting like animals. Even If I were to agree with you, I would love to know where you are getting that information. How is it exactly that you know all these people are poor when the limited amount of evidence we have is that they are not poor. Now, it's possible you are right and they are dirt broke, but I want to know, other then their skin color, how do you know that? I have to assume you are making this decision based on their skin color confirming what I already knew about liberals, that most if not all are closeted racists and when they attack conservatives for being racists, they are really projecting their own racists beliefs on to others. I'll give you the floor. I want to be wrong on this. I'll ask one more time. How do you know these people are poor?
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- You post the videos of violence. Then I post videos too of violence, and say "This too" You reply to my post of violence like this: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So YOU talk about skin color, and you do not talk about the violence in the videos I post.
Where did I talk about skin color in that post other then saying I don't care what their skin color is? Huh? And yes, I did address the violence in your post. Read my replies again.