Being someone who is poor is not a crime. Being someone who is raped or robbed is not a crime.
Rape and other types of assaults are bad. Being (or feeling) helpless though - apparently makes people more likely to feel justified in getting what they want by whatever means. Deprivation and/or falsely feeling deprived could therefore influence depravation. Most people are more poor now than they were before because we were so very hoodwinked, robbed, deceived, damaged, and in our names a global greed based war was then instigated by the criminals who did all that; now as then we were punished for it (and it was both praised and denounced by perpetuators) and that punishment itself was then blamed on us. I agree with accountability and correction for hurting, destroying or cruelly treating someone - but enforcing the conditions and laws that keep some in poverty without real and obvious hopes and some rich without good reasons is also a crime. There are people who do not see many really good solutions and there are unfortunately also those who are not allowed to have them. There are many people without secure and safe dwellings, education, due rights and respects, without lawyers, without computers, without money, without color respect, without access to due process, without parents, friends, freedom from want, without a true sense of appropriate fear, and too too many who see guns as giving them security. People without depravity... Are there those? Everyone has potential depravity. I thought it was likely that the concepts of deprivation and depravation were at least somewhat similar, and were related in ways. I was told, though I was/am rather certain that it is not true, that I had caused someones death. If I did, most certainly, I did not want them to be dead. Cheney fired a gun at someone and authorized use of murder and torture. He was not been held accountable. > I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength. > Etty Hillesum
