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Nah, It's That People Are Cattle

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Norm Pattis ponders why no one stopped to help a Hartford hit-and-run victim. He thinks it has to do with our brutal human nature:My sense is that in neighborhoods all across the United States many people shudder behind masks of indifference in fear of one another. We have a state that taxes, we have police officers who patrol the streets, we put people in prison (2.3 million with more every day), but we lack empathy and fellow feeling. Despite all the trappings of a society, we lack any sense of common bonds and community. We step into the public places much as Hobbes' folks walked in the state of nature. Life is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short for many Americans. The state of nature is returning, claiming places like Park Street in Hartford and the East Side of Detroit, one street at a time...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on June 06, 2008 (boomark / email).

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