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Re:Parts for stolen Hyundais and Kias are so scarce the cars... by echelon on Monday May 01, 2023 @05:43AM (#35770732)
Appalachia is poor as dirt, yet has half the crime rate. And that's just one comparison - there are lots of others in the world.

Crime is a meme (in the Dawkins sense). You see your peers memeing and you start to repeat the same meme yourself. The more you're surrounded by the meme, the more it becomes part of you and how you operate. It's how our brains operate as pattern recognizers and pattern repeaters.

The spread of school shootings is a meme - it didn't happen in the pre-internet era, yet the uptick in news about it has led to a proliferation. It's become a part of the public consciousness, including amongst those that feel disaffected and likely to fall into destructive patterns of thought. It's easy to find online communities that reinforce these feelings and dispositions.

"Incel behavior". Meme.

Anti-trans politics. From out of nowhere, it's suddenly everywhere. Also a meme.

Through this lens, gang behavior amongst disaffected youth is no different than shitposting on Twitter in how it latches on to people and spreads.

If you transplanted the seeds of Atlanta crime into Pickens County, Georgia, I've no doubt the same behavior would take root there. It's independent of skin color or genes. It's a brain modality.

Behavior spreads as a meme. If there are pockets that support or reinforce a particular behavior, then the fire can't and won't die out.

Re:Parts for stolen Hyundais and Kias are so scarce the cars... by avtar on Monday May 01, 2023 @06:34AM (#35770984)
> The spread of school shootings is a meme - it didn't happen in the pre-internet era

That might not be the case:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_...

Re:Parts for stolen Hyundais and Kias are so scarce the cars... by simoom22 on Monday May 01, 2023 @06:06AM (#35770851)
There's definitely more at play than just bad thoughts. Actions result from emotions and expectations that are conditioned by complex patterns of social behavior reinforced by material pressures and legal institutions providing complex feedback to behaviors and all of that is also part of the explanation why memes spread farther and faster in some places, like American schools, than in other places.
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Re:Parts for stolen Hyundais and Kias are so scarce the cars... by chownie on Monday May 01, 2023 @06:19AM (#35770925)
To put the complaints in perspective, discrimination against trans people affects all trans people but you've chosen to focus on women who are affected by support for trans people, a smaller number just by virtue of statistics.

Following this logic is how states say "we're supporting women" by passing laws which specifically target the grand total of four trans sports players in their state. It's fucking bonkers logic, in ten years we'll be ashamed that we ever did this.

Re:Parts for stolen Hyundais and Kias are so scarce the cars... by echelon on Monday May 01, 2023 @06:02AM (#35770830)
> males

Don't do that.

In the limit, when we have brain-computer uploads, people will be all races, genders, furries, dragons, whatever. People of the future will happily change their personas frequently, and they'll look upon history as being full of genetic Luddites.

If people had a pill that made them not-ugly, they'd take it. Or to get a bigger penis, or to be taller, or to be less fat, or have a higher VO2 max. You wouldn't even question it. So why go out of your way to make a point about gender?

There's no reason why any of us should be satisfied with what we were born into. Especially if it doesn't feel right. Boxing people into genetic confines is stifling.

Live and let live.