I didn’t take your post as an attack at all.
But as we rule out race, gender and age...can we please rule out “it’s due to a bad childhood, parents and lack of love”.
I know lots of folks that had a crappy childhood, crummy or absent parents and probably didn’t “feel the love”.
They didn’t descend into animalistic behavior.
Personal responsibility is a lost art...they do these things because they are morally depraved.
Oh, I agree from the standpoint of the individual, known plenty of people that as you said, had lousy upbringings and still turned out as great people. Personal responsibility is always the bottom line.
But we can also not be blind to the fact that some cultures are just superior to others due to their values and characteristics. Black American culture is, in large part, rotten because its been built around victim-hood, and allowed itself to become completely in bed with hip hop culture, which is completely and totally rotten. White culture simply has better values and thus has better results.
This is NOT the same as saying that there aren’t any cultures that are different from white culture that aren’t good, albeit different. Asians are a good example. They have a different way of doing things to be sure, but the ethics, specifically the work ethic and family structure is still there. Its different, but not inferior. Indians (dot, not feather) are another that I’d put in this category. I certainly don’t completely understand it all, but I know this: You don’t see them on eternal welfare and they come here with very little and manage to do fine and succeed in business because they are willing to work.