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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FreeTheSlaves" data-source="post: 2551638" data-attributes="member: 9952">"Theft" is to me an extremely interesting concept. We in the west live in a world where private ownership is not only allowed but valorized. (By "west" I'm talking about the nation states that are: Liberal Capitalist, White Euro-American, consider themselves Modernist, emphasize Rationalism & Individualism, & possess the largest economies & militaries.) Private ownership allows an individual the ability to not only bring up a family with the privilege earnt but also to pass this on to the next generation (i.e. inheritance). A "good" parent can thus provide material benefit to their children while a "bad" parent cannot. That is, the child of the "bad" parent, by the sins of their father, are not given an equal chance in the formative years of their life.Back then to "Theft". We live in a world with extreme inequality with a deeply entrenched system which not only perpetuates this but increases the gap. Many of the children of "bad" parents grow up & find that they have been groomed in such a manner to not be best equiped to become a "good" parent. Some of these resort to aquiring wealth outside the systematic norm (i.e. commit crime), but this of course is not a riskfree venture & the prisons fill up with grown up children of "bad" parents.By now you can probably guess where I am coming from. I consider the perpetuation of this unequal world to be a moral outrage & yet there are senior members of mine & your society that not only defend this but launch attack upon any attempt to change the status quo. I consider such figures to be the stooges of a morally bankrupt social structure. In short, they are the removed but present participant in every "theft".I cannot hope to answer the nature versus nurture debate, by default I split it 50/50. Such fiqures seem to genuinely believe in what they are perpetuating. They have a background reason to act as they do having learned it from the "good" parents but also they, like everyone, do have a choice I think. Perhaps the continuation down this dark path points to humankind automatically losing our tenuous grasp of morality when given a chance to entrench beneficial inequality. Then again we have the example of most people from woeful backgrounds doing good in this world, which perhaps points to an inherantly moral human spirit?</blockquote>

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