Lead from gasoline blunted the IQ of about half the U.S. population, study says (...just wait until we learn what hormone disrupting pollution has done to us)

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[–]Jiminy 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

People point to high black crime that went down once lead wasn't used. It went down cuz enough of em were put in jail, now it's back up. The lead thing is fake. If it hurt iqs they'd put it in gas and paint even more. Lead is valuable. It's used for batteries. Too valuable to just put in all our gas.

[–]SoCo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

I'd argue that crime, regardless of color, is only reliant on unhappiness, poverty, and lack of opportunities.

[–]Jiminy 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'd argue it's genetic

[–]GuyWhite 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Sure. Everyone is a victim. Nobody is responsible for their actions.

[–]Titanic 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it's about temptation.

It's easier to become a degenerate in a degenerate culture like degenerate american black culture, than it is in slightly less degenerate American white culture.

But it IS up to the individual person to let the temptation overcome them.

[–]SoCo[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

As a macro population of people, I do believe that to be true. As individuals, I do not.

While you can't stop one-off personal bad choices or lack of responsibility, you can find a systematic cause for most population-level problems.

Poor people have poor ways, regardless of anything else. Poverty will fuck up anyone mentally and morally.

[–]GuyWhite 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I miss leaded gasoline. It had octane.