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SO. I was just contemplating John Locke's "Tabula Rasa" theory. This basically says that people are born Tabula Rasa "A blank slate". In other words, people aren't born mean, they're made mean. I've been thinking about this, and I really think I agree with this John Locke character.

This leads one to think about how important this makes the family, particularly in American culture. I mean, whether your family is your biological family or just really close friends that take care of you, just about everyone i can think of has a "family" of some sort. These people mold us, and shape us, building us into the people we are now and will be. Literally constructing us from the "ground up".

So i got to thinking, what about people lacking proper family settings? Then i realized, oh thats right, we call them crazy, murderers, rapists, kidnappers, burglars, convicts. Its almost common knowledge that almost any sort of criminal has had a terrible family background, if any at all. They would grow up in a home situation most kids/people can't even imagine. Alcoholism, drug and domestic abuse, and all sorts of problems prevail in these convict-breeding factories.

So maybe there should be more focus, specifically in America, on the family. Forget building more prisons, what we need is more emphasis on improving the family unit. If more people respected the family unit, that problem would nearly fix itself. Its hard to find crime in a land of momma's boys.

Anyways, thats what my recent chain of thoughts has lead me to. Take from it whatever you want to.

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Can't you just imagine some basement dwelling geek posting all of these insane things? I sure as hell can. Don't worry though, my computer's upstairs.

Ooooh internet, what horrible things you bring out of humanity.

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-Byron

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