It's generalising negative characteristics onto immutable characteristics that is the problem. Women are mentally ill. Men are violent criminals.
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More correctly "ALL men are not violent criminals", however most murders where the victim is female are committed by males and the same is not true for male victims. If this were true for any other group in society there wld be outrage. Why not for females?
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OF COURSE males commit more violent crimes than women. Males are also the victims of violent crimes much more often for the same underlying reason. Carrying out, and absorbing violence is part of the traditional male role - so women don't have to.
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So violence is just a necessary evil?
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Sometimes. It would be great to eradicate it completely but until we find a way to make everyone in the world nice, this is not realistic.
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Thats a pretty hands off kind of attitude, great if you live in a comfortable neighbourhood.
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Huh? How does that relate in any way to what I said? How did you get from 'It's unrealistic to think that we will ever be able to completely eradicate violent criminality' to 'I don't think we should do anything about violent criminality.' This unreasonableness is a pattern w you
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Just seemed a little callous for those who may have suffered violence thats all.
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