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Link? Or is this your way of expressing you believe criminal tendencies are a genetic trait?


http://www.freakonomics.com/2008/01/22/what-do-declining-abo...

The original argument is in the book. The idea is that children from disadvantaged families are more likely to be aborted, while at the same time, children from disadvantaged families are also more likely to be crime prone. So, logically, abortion reduces crime with a twenty year delay. Personally, I like the lead theory[1] better, but it doesn't matter. It's not about eugenics or genes.

1 http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2013/01/lead-crime-li...


> criminal tendencies are a genetic trait?

What?! No, I believe criminal tendencies are produced from your environment. Kids in bad homes tend to grow into bad people.

Link: http://www.freakonomics.com/2005/05/15/abortion-and-crime-wh...




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