To: NicknamedBob
Not sure why I brought up the draft riots. I didn't intent to but that's still good info you posted. I've not seen Gangs of New York. I was thinking of why some Scots and Irish would immigrate over here became slave masters and if they were oppressed in their own lands why would they come over here and engage in oppression. You would think they'd be motivated to treat people in ways they were not treated back home.
57 posted on
05/21/2005 7:32:38 PM PDT by
cyborg
(Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
To: cyborg
"...if they were oppressed in their own lands why would they come over here and engage in oppression? You would think they'd be motivated to treat people in ways they were not treated back home."
Not every human being reacts to temptation and opportunity the same way.
It is very common among immigrant groups that some seem to think the rules of civilized behavior no longer apply. It is happening still today.
That is not the only way that people from a "lower-class" situation view through a broken prism the workings of mature society, others have a perverse attitude about business ethics. Most enjoy their new freedoms, but do not immediately appreciate their new responsibilities.
58 posted on
05/21/2005 7:43:54 PM PDT by
NicknamedBob
(Our civil masters think they can decide what is good for us better than we can decide it ourselves.)
To: cyborg
"I was thinking of why some Scots and Irish would immigrate over here became slave masters and if they were oppressed in their own lands why would they come over here and engage in oppression. You would think they'd be motivated to treat people in ways they were not treated back home."
Child abusers are very often people who were abused themselves.
82 posted on
05/22/2005 6:05:24 AM PDT by
LibertarianInExile
(<-- sick of faux-conservatives who want federal government intervention for 'conservative things.')
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