Mark is absolutely right... this is basically an isolated incident (which doesn't make it any less stupid). "[My client's] lack of schooling has robbed him of a value system"?... yeah, perhaps we can put the minister for education from when Psaila was in school in jail instead... tempting.
More people pollute more than fewer people? First of all, how does cutting back on immigration actually decrease the number of people in the world? Second of all, if anything, it does the opposite because people from poor rural communities in impoverished countries tend to have high birth rates whereas people living in wealthy, industrialized, highly urbanized countries (like... umm... Australia) have far lower birth rates.
Civilized and media-savvy perhaps, but I might think twice about intelligent. I wonder if I could be media-savvy... I could take my shirt off, but nobody would take me seriously.
It worries me that anyone would think you need a 'value system' to comprehend that beating the shit out of people is not an acceptable thing to do.
Mind you, as they say, things are only in the news because they're unusual enough to be newsworthy. I don't think there's any sector of the community that can lay claim to the moral high ground (I know Dandy police have a lot of problems with members of every ethnic group - and they have most of them - thinking it's OK to drive drunk, beat the shit out of your kids, and rape your wife), but at least most of the bigoted fuckwits going around are mostly into posturing bullshit and not much else.
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More people pollute more than fewer people? First of all, how does cutting back on immigration actually decrease the number of people in the world? Second of all, if anything, it does the opposite because people from poor rural communities in impoverished countries tend to have high birth rates whereas people living in wealthy, industrialized, highly urbanized countries (like... umm... Australia) have far lower birth rates.
Civilized and media-savvy perhaps, but I might think twice about intelligent. I wonder if I could be media-savvy... I could take my shirt off, but nobody would take me seriously.
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Mind you, as they say, things are only in the news because they're unusual enough to be newsworthy. I don't think there's any sector of the community that can lay claim to the moral high ground (I know Dandy police have a lot of problems with members of every ethnic group - and they have most of them - thinking it's OK to drive drunk, beat the shit out of your kids, and rape your wife), but at least most of the bigoted fuckwits going around are mostly into posturing bullshit and not much else.
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