"Trent Moorehead" wrote in message
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The caller said, "Well, poverty is the cause of crime."

I was and am amazed that someone could be that confused.

It's no more amazing than that someone could be so confused as to think that
the ONLY reason someone steals, in this country or anywhere, is "because
they have no morals -- period".

Theft and other crimes occur for a wide variety of reasons, even here in the
US. You'd have to be a blockhead to actually *condone* crime, but a person
who is as ignorant as to the reasons for it as Jay is has no hope of ever
contributing to reducing or eliminating crime.

There are, in fact, plenty of thefts that happen every day in this country
motivated strictly by survival.

Pete