Hal,
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Originally Posted by JinnKai
I'd say murder is low in acceptance and medium/high in ease. Reading is high in acceptance but medium/low in ease. Drugs are low in acceptance but high in ease.
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I question whether murder is nearly on a par as far as "ease" goes with drugs. Maybe as far as the actual execution of the action but certainly not in regards to the possible ramification's.
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Originally Posted by hambone
This makes sense to me.
And I think a big factor could be that when one of these activities negatively affects others it is that much more unacceptable.
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This I completely agree with. If the victim was a hermit with no one who cared about them (the Uni-bomber comes to mind as an example, of a hermit, not a victim) then it would not register with the general populus. The inverse is the people harmed by him who actually had support from loved one's willing to fight for their cause.
Not to open another can of worms , I think it's quite common knowledge (I might be wrong though), that there are countless "average" american's murdered everyday for every Chandra Levy or Laci Peterson, that don't come to the public's attention. I guess I don't have an answer to the question after all and am talking through a vodka haze...
That and Andy Dick just showed up on my T.V. screen, thus sending me to bed. Night all.