Quote: (08-02-2016 06:44 PM)ElFlaco Wrote:
Quote: (08-02-2016 11:47 AM)The Beast1 Wrote:
Yeah the only way you eliminate crime is by improving the conditions and legalizing the things that crime thrives on.
Improve economics, legalize drugs, and gambling. Take out a leg of their business.
None of those measures would make a big difference. Crime and corruption have cultural roots, not economic or even political ones. Libertarian thinking does not adequately take this into account.
In places like Latin America, people of all socioeconomic classes are focused on themselves and their families, not the welfare of the society at large. There's a lack of civicism. That's how these things go unchecked.
Indeed. The same can be said of large parts of Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe. It seems that the only people on Earth capable of producing high-trust and (relatively) low-corruption societies are western Europeans and their derivatives (USA, Australia, etc.).
Of course, as we all know, this does not mean that the west is immune from problems of their own.