(April 10, 2014 at 3:11 pm)Lek Wrote:(April 10, 2014 at 1:42 am)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: Vengeance is for the simple and the primitive.
Note how the rates have fallen, in some cases very dramatically, in the vast majority of those states, regardless of their capital vengeance status.
I thought the country was supposed to be going to hell and morals were disappearing and everything was getting worse because we're turning away from God. Looks like it was among the better decisions we made. If there's any causal link between the two, it's not flattering to religion.
I realize that this post may seem to be off the subject of the OP, but it is in answer the above post.
Murder and violent crimes have fallen and, if you read up on it, you'll find it's usually attributed to the aging of the population. Violent crime increased dramatically during the 60s and 70s when the baby boom generation were becoming teenagers and young adults. Older people tend to commit fewer crimes of this type. But I do agree that this a good thing and I'm not making a direct comment about the morals of athiests. But I have a great concern about these type of problems which I believe are bringing down the country:
increase in behavioral issues in classrooms
increase in the incidence of cheating in schools
increase in rape cases in schools
increase of bullying in schools
increase in children being raised in the absence of one parent
These don't portend well for the future of the country.
How many of those things are actually worse, and how much of that is actually just people being a lot more aware of them?
As for the violent crimes statistic, baby boomers made plenty of their own babies, and now grandbabies, who simply don't seem as predisposed towards killing. Maybe it was just that Baby Boomers were a more thoroughly screwed-up generation compared to GenX and the Millennials.
