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jennbo t1_j5udvra wrote

Reply to comment by FlexRVA21984 in Update: Henrico boy, 16, pleads guilty to fatally shooting Lucia Bremer, 13, in inexplicable killing by Charlesinrichmond

Be institutionalized by who? School, state? That stuff costs money, and often isn’t covered by insurance. Dead parents and abusive guardians living in poverty can’t/aren’t going to put you into a system and probably couldn’t pay for it even if they did.

You vastly underestimate how much poverty and violence goes into making a criminal (there are wide wide studies on this) and vastly overestimate how many resources are available in this country for abused and impoverished people.

The American prison system is one of the worst in the world. High recidivism rates. Extremely high incarceration rates. The most in the western world. Evil people and troubled people and people with money problems exist everywhere, but countries that have real reform programs in prisons and those that offer social services to people in poverty have fewer people in jail and much lower recidivism rates.

I suggest you study criminology and compare imprisoned people in the USA versus those in like, Japan or most European countries. It doesn’t have to be like this. The American criminal justice system fails victims and perpetrators and has not led to decreased rates of crime.

Crime does not exist in a vacuum. Relatively few people born into financially and emotionally healthy homes become criminals, and those that are have elements of psychopathy or sociopathy which are conditions that are still relatively hard to treat. American prisons may have more sociopaths and psychopaths behind bars, which is common in most countries, but the majority of people in American prisons aren’t sociopaths or psychopaths.

When it comes to crime, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. And our tax dollars pay for exactly zero ounces of prevention.

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geneb0322 t1_j5u8mpw wrote

Reply to comment by TheCheeseDevil in Babe, did you hear? It's the Wednesdaily by TheCheeseDevil

Gotcha.. It's definitely nice knowing where your meat came from. I hate factory farming but I'm definitely not made to be vegetarian (much less vegan) so hunting has become something I am more and more interested in. We're also going to start keeping meat chickens this spring to try to cut back on our reliance on grocery store meat too.

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geneb0322 t1_j5u7mqy wrote

Reply to comment by The_UnknownTA in Babe, did you hear? It's the Wednesdaily by TheCheeseDevil

Honestly I'd be cool just giving some away. Like I said above, I hunt them primarily for population control and tend to end up with a glut when their population is high. We don't eat them super often so there's usually a bunch still in the freezer by the time I need to cull them again (we even still have some frozen Brunswick stew from the last time we cooked any, actually).

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goodsam2 t1_j5u6ko8 wrote

Reply to Am I a dummy for wanting to live in a corporate apartment complex in Short Pump or Glen Allen? by Electrical_Order_442

I mean I would live close to the stuff you need to/want to be by. I mean if you both work out in innsbrook then live down that way. If you are what mid 30s and don't drink that much it doesn't seem that weird.

I mean you know generally what you will find in the museum district and the city (though far more affluent these days.)

A lot of that stuff out there seems soulless but more or less fine apartments.

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lifegavemelemons t1_j5u6byo wrote

Reply to Babe, did you hear? It's the Wednesdaily by TheCheeseDevil

I used to love these cold rainy days, but this year they’ve been wrecking havoc on what little balance my brain chemicals have. I went through some stuff last year and really haven’t found a way to move on. The social net I fell back on during that time has started to develop holes - leaving me wondering why I stick around town instead of heading home to old friends on days like this. Guess you know it’s bad when your dad tells you to go find a church (though I haven’t picked up any self destructive behaviors).

Warmer weather in spring will be appreciated - more vitamin D and being able to get to the mountains for some hiking will do me well I think.

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