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kleinbl00  ·  1871 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Young people who play video games have higher moral reasoning skills

The Freakanomics guys have no leg to stand on, as with most of the things they claim. Neither do the teacher's unions. The environmentalists, though...

The Lead-Crime Hypothesis is unpopular with 'boomers because it makes the human race look terrible. We knew lead was a brain-damaging toxin in 200 BC. We knew tetraethyl lead was an environmental toxin before we ever put it in cars. And the damage it did is permanent: the people who got poisoned are permanently stupider and permanently have poorer impulse control.

Yet Capitalism found a way.

And they're the ones who got most of the stupid.

    The old fucks remember growing up in crime infested shitholes... that were still statistically at least safer than our parents and grandparents hometowns when they were growing up.

It wasn't, though, and that's a common misconception. Crime really did peak in the '90s, never to return. It's safer now than it was in the '70s.