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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
Is it really? Or is that what we tell ourselves to help us sleep at night.
In the past 16 years I have lived in NYC, people have been killed over $.25, a pair of sneakers, a leather jacket, affection of a girl, or even "looked at someone funny", babies have been sold for drugs, children for sexual favors in exchange for drugs... Again, I'm going to cite the human condition for these behaviors, not places nor cultures. While it may not be so prevalent in the MidWest, it does exist in similar ways all over the United States.
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I agree with this. It's easy to replace popular notions with hard realities. It's funny how, even though we have an insatiable appetite for stories such as these about our fellow Americans, apparently once the story has been absorbed and chatted about, there are no lingering doubts about the "higher morality" of our society. No matter what we always stay above "those other countries."