Comment by Gareth321

2 hours ago

While true, I'm not sure this is much better. There are many genetic traits which are correlated with increased criminality, risk taking, obesity, heart disease, unemployment, etc. IQ in particular is the most well correlated metric we have for criminality, for example. This would imply that some people are just born with fewer freedoms. That's probably a good thing for society in aggregate, but something about this doesn't feel quite right.

However strongly genetic marks predict criminality, zip code does it better.

Any solution to crime that starts with eliminating types of people instead of poverty is just a form of fascism.