so what you are saying is it really does take a village.
Who thinks Iceland's Gun Laws are a good example for the USA?
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so what you are saying is it really does take a village.
TexDefender
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- Feb 28, 2017
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I'm pointing out what makes their social society different from ours. But yes to degree it does take a village to raise a child.
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I see it as families being responsible first and the result is a village where they can live together in peace. I think the whole 'it takes village' line is nothing but leftist crap intended to destroy the nuclear family and glorify the State as the caretaker and provider. It is designed to make the leftists feel good about taking taxes from those who work and hand it over to the 'villagers' who do not contribute to the betterment of society. my 2¢
abean4187
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- Apr 16, 2013
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Iceland’s lack of violence has nothing to do with their gun laws. You could dump AR-15s with 100 round magazines from an airplane, load up every citizen, and they would still have zero murders.
They don’t have a “war on drugs” which creates a criminal class. They don’t have urban centers which are the equivalent to third world nations. They don’t fill their prisons with non-violent offenders.
Likewise, their country is one of the least culturally/racially diverse in the world. They don’t have immigrants coming from violent countries where murder is common place. They don’t have a country filled with tribalistic mentality where everyone sees anyone different as an “us vs them” situation because there literally is no one different.
It is basically impossible to compare America to Iceland, it is apples to oranges and what they do may or may not work. There is no way to tell but frankly, I would walk of the side of less regulation and more freedom before trying the Iceland model.
They don’t have a “war on drugs” which creates a criminal class. They don’t have urban centers which are the equivalent to third world nations. They don’t fill their prisons with non-violent offenders.
Likewise, their country is one of the least culturally/racially diverse in the world. They don’t have immigrants coming from violent countries where murder is common place. They don’t have a country filled with tribalistic mentality where everyone sees anyone different as an “us vs them” situation because there literally is no one different.
It is basically impossible to compare America to Iceland, it is apples to oranges and what they do may or may not work. There is no way to tell but frankly, I would walk of the side of less regulation and more freedom before trying the Iceland model.
Steve_Zissou
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Iceland is a racially and culturally homogeneous society with a median IQ of over 100 and a fairly narrow distribution at that, so socioeconomic inequality is next to nil compared to say, the US. As others have said, you could air-drop two AR-15s for every citizen and the violent crime numbers wouldn't budge because they have a extremely high-trust society built on a population that biologically just doesn't seem predisposed to violent crime.
It's honestly no different there than it is in Japan, Switzerland, Norway, the Baltics, or South Korea, and again, as others have already mentioned here, if you ignore certain pockets of crime-prone populations in the USA, large swaths of this country really aren't that different from Iceland, either.
It's honestly no different there than it is in Japan, Switzerland, Norway, the Baltics, or South Korea, and again, as others have already mentioned here, if you ignore certain pockets of crime-prone populations in the USA, large swaths of this country really aren't that different from Iceland, either.
Did you mean to say rural?
Little Iceland is one of the most technologically advanced countries in Europe.
https://www.independent.co.uk/life-...y-advanced-country-in-the-world-a6757196.html
Very little crime, I dont care why. Very friendly, happy people, It's citizens are not diverse but it's tourists sure are. Been there, done that, want to do it again.
- Aug 29, 2016
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I don't agree. I think when people say "it takes a village to raise a child" they're referring to the old small town model where everyone went to the same church, shopped at the same stores, attended the same schools, and so forth. If a kid misbehaved on the main street, one of the store owners would let his parents know, and the kid would get disciplined when he got home. None of that "not my little angel" BS.
Reptile
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As counter intuitive as it sounds, 94% urban is correct. The reference is to the percentage of the total population living in the three largest "cities". By US standards they aren't even close to city size.
Reptile
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I agree with you, but there's a big difference between what people say and what Hillary Clinton says.
- Aug 29, 2016
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I agree with you, but there's a big difference between what people say and what Hillary Clinton says.
That much is very true!
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