Comments by "Scott Charney" (@scottcharney1091) on "Joe Rogan - Jake The Snake on Childhood Abuse and Addiction" video.

  1. One complaint of any kind doesn't invalidate another, especially when they're completely unrelated!
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  2. When England had public hangings for pickpockets, there were pickpockets working the crowds. It just doesn't work as a deterrent. Even law enforcement acknowledges this.
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  3. When England had public hangings for pickpockets, there were pickpockets working the crowds. It just doesn't work as a deterrent. Even law enforcement acknowledges this.
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  4. Thanks for mentioning that.
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  5. When England had public hangings for pickpockets, there were pickpockets working the crowds. It just doesn't work as a deterrent. Even law enforcement acknowledges this.
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  6. Yeah; many (all?) kinds of trauma can do that.
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  7. When England had public hangings for pickpockets, there were pickpockets working the crowds. It just doesn't work as a deterrent. Even law enforcement acknowledges this.
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  8.  James Tyler  That isn't true. You know about the Great Crime Decline, right? Ever since the early 90s, across the Western world (including places where guns are uncommon and the prison population never ballooned), crime dropped like a brick. A few years back, the US murder rate was at a 100-year low. There are numerous different explanations. https://www.economist.com/leaders/2013/07/20/the-curious-case-of-the-fall-in-crime https://www.economist.com/briefing/2013/07/20/where-have-all-the-burglars-gone
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  9.  James Tyler  That's beside the point, as the drop in crime occurred irrespective of gun ownership rates.
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  10.  James Tyler  Did you click the links and look at the stories from The Economist? Here are some of the factors: 1. Removal of lead from gasoline, and the phasing out of lead paint (although it's still prevalent in the substandard housing where many poorer people live). Lead seriously damages the brains of children in particular, seriously weakening impulse control among other things. 2. Declining prices of things like electronics. It's not worth it to steal a lot of things that once commanded a very high price. 3. A lot less cash in pockets, cash registers, safes, and so on. 4. Changes in child-rearing practices. Roving groups of unsupervised, non-busy kids are likely to get into trouble, and corporal punishment teaches that violence is the way to solve problems. This is shown by empirical evidence. 5. Aging populations. 6. Arguably, loosening of abortion restrictions leading to fewer unwanted children, though this has been challenged. 7. Greater awareness of, and lower tolerance for, the kind of abuse that Jake talks about here, along with other forms of sexual abuse/assault/etc. I think that there are more, but you get the idea.
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  11.  James Tyler  There's no control group. Many of the other factors I mentioned, which are cited to account for the drop in crime in many different places, are also at play in Kennesaw.
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  12.  James Tyler  That's completely silly, and it isn't a counterargument anyway.
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  13.  James Tyler  Neither. (Also, I don't live with my family nor do I have an iPhone, but that's beside the point). Note that I brought up the fall in crime rates and what has actually caused them, and then you said that crime is a crisis that could be solved if more people were armed.
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  14.  James Tyler  I'm not a liberal; I'm a radical. I think you're projecting here, as I showed you reality, with empirical evidence. You couldn't deal with it, and then started throwing out red herrings like that Antarctica nonsense.
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  15. When England had public hangings for pickpockets, there were pickpockets working the crowds. It just doesn't work as a deterrent. Even law enforcement acknowledges this.
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