tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post4379318490844137101..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Declines in violenceUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-80878346448247745592009-08-08T00:36:05.447-07:002009-08-08T00:36:05.447-07:00anon - Indeed, I'm just glad no one I know was...anon - Indeed, I'm just glad no one I know was attacked.Simonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47590380951428803272009-08-07T07:01:25.062-07:002009-08-07T07:01:25.062-07:00My gut feeling would be that, while guns must have...<i>My gut feeling would be that, while guns must have ramped things up a bit, the general everyday sort of violence carries on regardless employing knives, machetes, baseball bats. One can imagine.</i> <br /><br />My gut says it's more than "a bit." The relationship between impulsiveness and black violence should not be underestimated. Nothing says "impulsive violence" like a firearm.<br /><br />~SvigorAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-6864458862437535372009-08-07T01:32:31.607-07:002009-08-07T01:32:31.607-07:00Simon,
You must live in my nick-of-the-woods...Simon,<br /> You must live in my nick-of-the-woods, Tooting in south London.<br /> Apparently that rapist you mention operated on a street bordering my own.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90864773705241474132009-08-06T19:45:03.928-07:002009-08-06T19:45:03.928-07:00The UK's supposed high crime rate is no doubt ...<i>The UK's supposed high crime rate is no doubt a function how these statistics are gathered</i>.<br /><br />I would like to see some support for this beyond mere assertion. A coworker who recently returned from London said violence is just below the surface there in a way you don't find outside of inner city neighborhoods in the US.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10330712047609650184noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30431722237602357572009-08-06T16:10:27.484-07:002009-08-06T16:10:27.484-07:00David:
"In Florida USA, substitute "Fili...David:<br />"In Florida USA, substitute "Filipinas" for "Muslims," "Africans" and "Tamils.""<br /><br />We have lots of Filipina nurses here too; by local standards they seem to be towards the higher end of the competency continuum.Simonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30136136139358458022009-08-06T13:25:19.493-07:002009-08-06T13:25:19.493-07:00His figure of 100 million violent 20th-century dea...<i>His figure of 100 million violent 20th-century deaths is just way too low. That number is attributed to Communism alone, not even counting warfare. I suspect he's simply failed to include genocide.</i><br /><br />Communism itself is a form of genocide.<br /><br /><i>How many were killed during the Chinese civil war?</i><br /><br />Which one? I can name two, the Taiping Rebellion and the Cultural Revolution.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-147923547002028112009-08-06T10:24:40.204-07:002009-08-06T10:24:40.204-07:00"We're near a point where pervasive surve..."We're near a point where pervasive surveillance could virtually eliminate crime and a lot of other nuicances. Implant a chip in everyone,"<br /><br />Who will protect us from our protectors?<br /><br />(I like your sarcasm, esp. the good behavior comment.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44794175082919801352009-08-06T10:20:26.563-07:002009-08-06T10:20:26.563-07:00"here in London I see relatively competent ba..."here in London I see relatively competent baby-boomer whites and high-caste Raj-era Hindu Indians being replaced by incompetent AA Muslim doctors, especially, and by incompetent black Africans & Tamils in nursing, midwifery and dentistry."<br /><br />In Florida USA, substitute "Filipinas" for "Muslims," "Africans" and "Tamils."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78325707963691727182009-08-06T10:18:51.749-07:002009-08-06T10:18:51.749-07:00"Really, I think if people with 115+ IQs were..."Really, I think if people with 115+ IQs were inclined to commit crimes, they could get away with a lot."<br /><br />They might even arrange it so that no one knew of their crimes.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-39112430772144614992009-08-06T10:16:13.803-07:002009-08-06T10:16:13.803-07:00"Another thing to keep in mind is that the mo..."Another thing to keep in mind is that the modern rich and productive economy is not just easy to DESTROY, but also relatively easy to REBUILD. Just ask the Germans after WW2."<br /><br />The supply of Germans is naturally limited.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10235500900109809482009-08-06T09:04:19.951-07:002009-08-06T09:04:19.951-07:00Re: the future of medicine in the US.
My one and ...Re: the future of medicine in the US.<br /><br />My one and only surgery was performed last December by a Pakistani-Brit surgeon. He was assisted by a Korean woman, and the anaesthesiologist was a lovely woman from Iceland. This at Mass General Hospital in Boston, one of the top hospitals in the world.<br /><br />According to my PCP, the US is the only option for the best doctors in the world who wish to make a good living. This will continue to be the case until Obamacare becomes law.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-45925339759421886752009-08-06T00:49:15.298-07:002009-08-06T00:49:15.298-07:00anon:
"The UK's supposed high crime rate ...anon:<br />"The UK's supposed high crime rate is no doubt a function how these statistics are gathered. Anyone who thinks that the UK has more serious crime than the US, apart from murder, is insane. The "bad" neighborhoods in London are like Disneyland compared to the bad neighborhoods of any American city."<br /><br />Hmm, kind-of. The thing is, I live in a typical (very close to London average in populations and wealth), not-so-bad London neighbourhood, with houses around half a million dollars. And unlike the US, you have white professionals mixed in with lower class whites and various violent ethnic groups in state-provided housing. We have murders in the immediate neighbourhood (of ca 12,000 people) every year or so. Some are gangs; Pakistani-on-Pakistani, Tamil-on-Tamil, both using machetes, iron bars and such. Occasionally professional white criminals shoot each other. There have been some black gang shootings in neighbouring areas, and a disabled white guy was recently murdered by a black thug at a local supermarket. There has recently been gang violence between rival Pakistani and Somali gangs (Somalis win - khat makes them crazy).<br /><br />None of this makes the area uninhabitable. Whites are around 60% of the population; the influx of tough eastern-european whites (Russian, Polish) helps prevent any 'BAM' group (Black & South Asian Minority) getting critical mass to initiate ethnic-cleansing effects, as has happened in other parts of London and other UK cities. It's far from ideal though. The police were apparently for years covering up a black serial rapist who preyed on professional white women coming home on the local bus. Most of the white professionals I meet don't seem aware just how much crime there is here, or they're young and single and prepared to tolerate it.Simonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38131623502292922092009-08-06T00:24:36.457-07:002009-08-06T00:24:36.457-07:00anon - Those French students were murdered by whit...anon - Those French students were murdered by whites:<br /><br />http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/video/Two-Men-Guilty-Of-Murdering-French-Students/Video/200906115295977?lpos=video_Article_Related_Content_Region_3&lid=VIDEO_15295977_Two_Men_Guilty_Of_Murdering_French_Students<br /><br />East London is horrible, I'm glad I no longer work there.Simonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76262110384579130892009-08-05T21:45:18.190-07:002009-08-05T21:45:18.190-07:00There are jut too many drunks in England. I'v...There are jut too many drunks in England. I've met a number of nice young English gents who get all brawly after they've had a few beers. When not drunk, they still have their gentle nature.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86092415617476963292009-08-05T19:53:15.320-07:002009-08-05T19:53:15.320-07:00It seems to me that in the long term, humans may b...<i>It seems to me that in the long term, humans may be getting more peaceful, but in the medium term, peaceable populations get replaced by violent ones, as happened at the end of the Roman empire and as is happening in Europe right now.</i><br /><br />Peacable, or nihilistic?<br /><br />In order to survive one must have an ideology with survival as an express objective. The Third World's populations have that. We don't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66394764530593754632009-08-05T18:54:47.028-07:002009-08-05T18:54:47.028-07:00Surely violence in places such as Africa must be m...<i>Surely violence in places such as Africa must be much worse now then when they had only spears and rocks</i>.<br /><br />Perhaps Headache, our old Africa hand, could enlighten us.<br /><br />My gut feeling would be that, while guns must have ramped things up a bit, the general everyday sort of violence carries on regardless employing knives, machetes, baseball bats. One can imagine.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20394022616346067792009-08-05T17:11:50.645-07:002009-08-05T17:11:50.645-07:00"--The Chinese will never be violent. "
..."--The Chinese will never be violent. "<br /><br />Read "Scarlet Memorials: tales of cannibalism in modern China" by Yi Zheng. about the "cultural revolution" as carried out in the southern province of Guangxi.Charlottenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56477727881077119002009-08-05T16:22:46.020-07:002009-08-05T16:22:46.020-07:00"It is only in the last 100 years or so that ..."It is only in the last 100 years or so that guns have been widely available. Surely violence in places such as Africa must be much worse now then when they had only spears and rocks."<br /><br />That is absolutely correct. I was recently reading someone, can't remember who, who talked about how those who developed tools, especially guns, and other peoples like them, would also best be able to deal with them. In other words, the intelligence to develop them were concomitant with with the intelligence and self-control to use them.<br /><br />Relatedly, this highlights that people *do* tend to know what is best for themselves. White communities can only benefit from a gun culture, but the inner-city Blacks are probably right that guns are bad for them and are being rational when they fight against them. Another reason why such different populations co-existing is a bad.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58045885323609038342009-08-05T16:11:53.013-07:002009-08-05T16:11:53.013-07:00"As the Baby Boomer Caucasian trauma surgeons..."As the Baby Boomer Caucasian trauma surgeons start to retire [right now they are roughly 50s-ish to early 60s-ish, and at the very height of their careers], and as they are replaced by the Obama-care Affirmative Actionocracy socialized medicine witch doctors [will Komment Kontrol allow us to use the term "witch doctor" in this context?], I can just about guarantee you that the number of murders ...towards 115,000 per year."<br /><br />Wishful thinking. Baby-boomer surgeons will be replaced with Asians not affirmative action mandates.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62988759293325708882009-08-05T13:04:28.513-07:002009-08-05T13:04:28.513-07:00It is only in the last 100 years or so that guns h...It is only in the last 100 years or so that guns have been widely available. Surely violence in places such as Africa must be much worse now then when they had only spears and rocks.Melykinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79630348551587837822009-08-05T11:08:03.540-07:002009-08-05T11:08:03.540-07:00Two points:
1. During the harrowing, ruinous Pelo...Two points:<br /><br />1. During the harrowing, ruinous Peloponnesian War, which cost the Achaeans countless losses, the Sparta laid siege to Athens on a seasonal basis. That's right, seasonal. When they weren't growing crops and engaging civil life, they would spend the time off by laying siege to Athens, attacking their olive trees, yelling insults. It was basically what a road trip today is for fratboys: an enjoyable way to wreak havoc, let off some steam from mundane life and have a good time with the buddies. But if they overstayed their time in Athens, it would hurt their ability to grow crops. The Peloponnesian War was violent and traumatic, but the allure of war was always apart of the Ancient Greek mentality.<br /><br />Compare that to Iraq in 2006, when US soldiers were stuck in violent war zones on an indefinite basis, having to worry about being blown up by an IED during a drive. It turns a fun, exciting adventure (which the war was in March and April 2003) into violent drudgery.<br /><br />2. China has not been an egregiously violent nation. The Confucians always had a lowly view of combat, akin to the one the Humanists had. Just as Thomas More left war to mercenaries, the Confucians left war to Turkish barbarians. The problem is that when social order collapsed, few places were more violent than anarchic China. The An Lushan Rebellion (or An Shi) devoured around 36 million people out of around 50 to 86 million. This would be unspeakably horrifying by today's standards, but it was absolutely unprecedented in the era of 755-763. As stated earlier, Chinese civil wars are never pretty.<br /><br />It should be interesting to see how modern China deals with its internal problems. One of which is that some provinces have 1.4 men for every woman. We've seen how violent it is when a few men war after many women, but we have seen many men in conflict over a few women. Maybe China will invade other countries for the women, maybe they'll fight each other, or maybe more than a few men will become eunuchs. All have historical precedents. The cliched Chinese curse holds true: May you live in interesting times!Sidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49426612663190552692009-08-05T11:07:53.774-07:002009-08-05T11:07:53.774-07:00Train sez:
Sure, nagging African violence is annoy...Train sez:<br /><i>Sure, nagging African violence is annoying, but it's nothing compared to the violence that can be unleashed by highly intelligent, organized, and disciplined populations.</i><br /><br><br />Thanks for admitting for once that Krauts and Japs are not drunken imbeciles but rather a threat because they are "highly intelligent, organized". Most of the media likes to portray Germans and Nazi as idiots, but I doubt you manage to bind the whole world in 2 massive wars for 5 years each if you are an imbecile.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46319049342915777812009-08-05T10:58:21.514-07:002009-08-05T10:58:21.514-07:00Years ago, somebody here at iSteve pointed out the...Years ago, somebody here at iSteve pointed out the following story:<br /><br /><b>Medical advances mask epidemic of violence by cutting murder rate</b> <br />Roger Dobson<br />BMJ 2002;325:615 (21 September)<br /><a href="http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/325/7365/615/a" rel="nofollow">bmj.com</a> <br /><br /><i>...Without this technology, we estimate there would be no less than 50,000 and as many as 115,000 homicides annually instead of an actual 15,000 to 20,000... <br /><br />The aggravated assault rate was, by 1997, almost 750% higher than the baseline figure. The team also described the dramatic overall decrease in trauma mortality in the second half of the 20th century... <br /><br />The period of greatest change came between 1972 and 1977, on the heels of the US involvement in the Vietnam war, which triggered big advances in trauma care.</i> <br /><br />As the Baby Boomer Caucasian trauma surgeons start to retire [right now they are roughly 50s-ish to early 60s-ish, and at the very height of their careers], and as they are replaced by the Obama-care Affirmative Actionocracy socialized medicine witch doctors [will Komment Kontrol allow us to use the term "witch doctor" in this context?], I can just about guarantee you that the number of murders - i.e. successful attempted murders which result in actual murders, not unsuccessful attempted murders which are thwarted by the skill of the American trauma surgeon - that the number of murders will head straight from 15,000 per year up towards 115,000 per year.<br /><br />You people just have no idea how bad things are about to become.Lucius Vorenusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-38676609499338100932009-08-05T10:53:52.245-07:002009-08-05T10:53:52.245-07:00I agree that in western countries it’s possible to...I agree that in western countries it’s possible to clear up almost any crime which is not politically covered or committed by foreign intelligence agencies. In Africa the situation is different. The police infrastructure is either non-existent or derelict. Most police forces, if they exist, are just working for the governing party. There is no separation of state and ruling party. In addition, most governments there don't have a strong crime concept so many crimes go unpunished. The black culture is historically more violent and things like (child) rape, child-offerings, muti-murders, theft only became an issue after colonialism and the missions when the western powers transplanted Roman law to Africa. In South Africa for instance, muti-murders (murdering people in order to remove genitals which are used in witchcraft rituals), which now also include white victims and child-rape/offerings have resurfaced after the end of Apartheid. Polygamy is also now legal and no longer seen as a crime. In most post-colonial countries there is a move back to tribal law which is much more lenient and has very vague concepts of what actually constitutes crime. Crime is usually seen as that which threatens a local or regional chief’s power. This is the deeper reason why Obama and leading blacks want the criminal code in the US changed and eased.headachenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10708893346546738532009-08-05T09:13:40.010-07:002009-08-05T09:13:40.010-07:00you could have a rape case where the issue is pure...<i>you could have a rape case where the issue is purely whether the woman consented or not (not whether the defendant and the woman had sex), and the jury might acquit him because there was no DNA evidence.</i> <br /> <br /> <br /><br /><br />The jury is <i>supposed</i> to acquit him in those circumstances. People are innocent unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. These stupid "he said/she said" cases should never reach a court room.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com