"Fidel Perez" wrote in message
...

When I grow up, I want to be just like you (I just turned 48!). Would it
be
possible that you put the cart in front of the horse? Would it be possible
that, say, the same factor or factors that cause poverty also cause crime?

It would...but that would be putting the cart before the horse (in your
words).

Consider economic opportunities. Who would hire someone with a criminal
mindset to handle their economic transactions?

This, in my opinion, would show up as an statistical correlation, wouldn't
it?

It does. Now consider CAUSATION.



And one day I want to worship at the altar of the "facts", like you do
now.

Evidently, it would be a decisive change for you.

The big problem is: facts are sometimes in the eyes of the beholder.

How wonderfully postmodern. Thing is, PM denies that facts exist. It denies
reality exists. It's a modified form of schizophrenia.

To wit,
special theory of relativity, not even the concept of simultaneity
survives
different points of view.

Have a happy multiple lives.


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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO