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TauPathology said:Dr. P is right. Statistics cannot prove your point, and its probably not a point you should actively pursue. Being an immoral person is not a crime, and thus many immoral people are not sent to jail. Many of the people in jail are more moral than you think, and resort to crime out of desperation. Your crime statistic is misplaced and tactless.
Why are you so wound up? When I posted this it was not out of seriously trying to prove which gender was less or more amoral...but since you challenged, I'll play....First who are you to tell me what points I should actively pursue or not, opinions like that are not appreciated because they tend to take away or restrict the freedoms of others. Statistics are used to objectively and quanitatively represent a population as whole through random sampling therefore without talking to all ~3 billion people you can get a reasonably accurate representation of what they are like. Agreed morality is a qualitative variable but the presence of it can be quantified in the acts of those who posses it...Second I never said that being immoral was a crime but I'm sure there is a positive correlation between immorality and the penchant to commit a crime (note sociopaths, psycopaths, homicidal maniacs, drug dealers who sell to children because hey a buck is a buck, pimps, prostitutes, child abusers, rapists....the list goes on). Third since you seem to be an advocate of the theory that those who resort to committing crimes are mainly doing so out of desperation, in case you are ever a victim of one these desperate acts I hope you remember your stance.