that was an interesting thread to read actually. I found myself sympathetic to everyone's points, but it felt a lot like they were talking past each other, probably intentionally. The article that journo-sophist linked to had an inelegantly written passage for sure though.
in NYC this week there was just a really big fire in an apartment building in The Bronx. the cause is said to have been an unsupervised child playing with the kitchen stove, and then the residents leaving the apartment door opening so it spread to the stairwell.
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12 people died, the most lethal fire here in a long time. That's a preventable cause of deaths too, a lot like crime. At least we feel like we can prevent it even if in practice it's not so simple. The building was in a neighborhood with the demographics they're all taking about.
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It's really a tragedy. Shouldn't have happened. You know the living conditions create a kind of psychic malaise that leads to all kinds of bad shit. High crime and unsupervised children are both symptoms of the malaise I think.
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