WHAT!?

[beerkegbilly]

I want Ron Paul He wants to legalize Weed man.

[DeeboCools]

I want Ron Paul He wants to legalize Weed man.

What he said! End all the wars, including the drug war!

[beerkegbilly]

I want Ron Paul He wants to legalize Weed man.

What he said! End all the wars, including the drug war!

yes and also wants to legalize coke and hookers

[TheBigCasino]

If the topic is Africa, you can't fingerpoint while the same problem is happening here too, and in Asia etc..etc.. Africa is an easy scapegoat, and if Mustaine is still in Cali, I bet he's no more than an hour away from the very same problems he's complaining on Africa about.

I didn't get the impression from his interview response that he was finger pointing or complaining about Africa. He was talking about homes without fathers in general, and then used Africa as an extreme example. I also didn't get the impression that he was putting down other places in order to make himself feel better off. The topic of his response was regarding giving people advice that can help them, and it began with, "Instead of saying, 'Don't do this,' say, 'This is what I did, and this is what happened, and here's an alternative to do for that."

My point was that, asshole or not, he was not incorrect when he drew a connection between unplanned children and poverty in the world. If a fact is true, then it's true regardless of where Mustaine or anybody else happens to live. It's like how I live in a state that's a financial mess, but that doesn't make me incorrect when I say that Greece has a crippling budget deficit. If I criticize the culture of sexual discrimination and assault that exists in the Middle East, it doesn't mean that I am ignoring or accepting of the domestic abuse cases happening in my own city.

How so? Serious question, I'm not trying to be a smartass, I haven't read the book ( and now I want to ).

He was able to break each factor down into rough percentages. This video shows a few of those percentages. Here is a clip from a documentary made from the book. Keep in mind that those videos and the chapter in the book are just summarized versions of the peer-reviewed research he published back in 2001.

I agree to a point, but where are we talking about? Birth rates to crime in America and birth rates to crime in Africa, there's a shitload of variables that could swing that one way or the other.

There's definitely a lot of variables between Africa and America, but I don't see how any of those differences could be enough to completely reverse the correlation and turn more impoverished children into a good thing. If anything, I would think that family planning and birth control have an even larger positive impact on places with high poverty rates. I just brought up Freakonomics because it's a well-known example. There seems to have been a lot of research done on poverty and fertility specifically in Africa as well. Here is one of the articles that isn't in PDF format.

OK, gimme a sec. gonna go through 'em, haven't bought the book yet (tomorrow, as I will be in the big mall), but I see where you are coming from. My thing is (and this is a preliminary post, there will be more ramblings post-book). Is that, when you look at a continent like Africa, and this is just my opinion mind you, you can't blame their poverty/crime solely on people having too many kids, single parent households etc. There are more problems politically (as in, where is the money going?) that probably have a bigger role in how poor the citizens are.