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<blockquote data-quote="Northeast Stinger" data-source="post: 815392" data-attributes="member: 1640"><p>There are lots of nuances to this conversation in my opinion. The ACE study showed how people get hardwired at an early age, again, through no fault of their own. Without going into the meat of this research let me make an oblique reference as a kind of analogy. Child abuse is horrible and the people who commit it are blame worthy. On the other hand, most of these same people had their life set on this course when they themselves were repeatedly abused as children. There is no cure that we know of for what happened to them.</p><p></p><p>The problem of poverty is similar. I spent about 30 years working in various South Georgia towns. To put it bluntly, any young person with any sense would get out of those towns as quickly as possible. But most don’t. Even though there are no job prospects that would ever raise them out of the working poor category they do not have the educational background or the intellectual tools to see that there is a better life elsewhere. They literally just can’t see it. No one ever exposed them to any thing different. To them no place on earth is better even though they’ve never been more than 30 miles away from home to find out.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Northeast Stinger, post: 815392, member: 1640"] There are lots of nuances to this conversation in my opinion. The ACE study showed how people get hardwired at an early age, again, through no fault of their own. Without going into the meat of this research let me make an oblique reference as a kind of analogy. Child abuse is horrible and the people who commit it are blame worthy. On the other hand, most of these same people had their life set on this course when they themselves were repeatedly abused as children. There is no cure that we know of for what happened to them. The problem of poverty is similar. I spent about 30 years working in various South Georgia towns. To put it bluntly, any young person with any sense would get out of those towns as quickly as possible. But most don’t. Even though there are no job prospects that would ever raise them out of the working poor category they do not have the educational background or the intellectual tools to see that there is a better life elsewhere. They literally just can’t see it. No one ever exposed them to any thing different. To them no place on earth is better even though they’ve never been more than 30 miles away from home to find out. [/QUOTE]
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