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It's hard to open your mind enough to try to understand the perspective of another culture, their problems, frustrations, outlooks and assumptions that they've been brought up with. I'll never excuse criminal behavior, and just because you might understand their perspective doesn't mean you have to agree with it, but I do think it helps you to be able to recognize them as human beings, not just criminals or thugs. What happened to that community that has caused so many young men to think crime, drugs, and gangs are normal and acceptable? Is it easier to just right them off as a "bunch of criminals who belong in jail", or try to understand why that is so, and what can be done about it? That "dirt-bag criminal" in the gutter really is a human being, whether we like it or not. I know, I'm sounding like a preacher (I'm not).
Very true. The problem is in this age of no moral absolutes that a culture of criminal and dysfunctional behavior and attitudes must now no longer be viewed as negative but instead be tolerated and twisted into something positive when it is so clearly not.