Truth about Violence

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May come as a surprise for some:

[niky]

Lot of good points, but a lot of innuendo, and suggests a lot of things that the statistics he gives don't support.

For example: While gender and race discrimination exists in the judiciary, this DOES NOT prove that males are less violent than females. Just look at it... a conviction rate that is twice as high leads to a prison population that is 93% male? Doesn't add up.

It's rather this way: The preconceptions of violent males leads to higher conviction rates for men. Higher conviction rates for men doesn't lead to the preconceptions of violent males.

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Love how he goes from gender inequality to showing that men get raped more than women in prison... because of all the rapes in prison.

And who rapes men in prison?

Exactly.

And then he goes into the military... where the available victims are again... mostly male.

One could argue that in similar conditions, if living quarters were co-ed, then the mix would change greatly. #

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Same goes for child abuse. It all boils down to accessibility and proximity to the victim. Mothers have more contact time, so violence by the mother is more likely.

And this isn't based on reverse-***ism... it's just statistical fact. Just like the statistical fact that men are raped more in prison because there are more men to rape in prison.

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The message is a good one, however. Spanking is absolutely useless for babies and small children, and can cause behavioural problems in children as they grow.

And spanking is definitely a transmissible behaviour.