[lbo-talk] Why Democrats Can't Blame Bush for 9/11

[N P Childs]

At 12/04/2004,, you wrote:
>--A tentative hypothesis: politeness and respect are integral
>to the survival of brutal, coercive social systems.

Not a bad hypothesis, it would explain the U.S., Britain and Japan (just 
off the top of my head), but what about Canada?

We're ever so nice, and, yes we are a liberal-capitalist state with all 
that implies, but we don't execute the young, the retarded or anyone 
actually, guns are much more regulated than they are in the U.S. (as they 
are in Japan and the U.K.) and as far as I know our rates of violent crime 
are lower than the U.S.

Are we an anomaly?

PC

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