Hagbard Celine said:Bull. I'm not arguing semantics at all, you guys are. "Reason" and "excuse" are two, totally unrelated words. I never said criminal behavior should go unpunished just because of the criminal's reason for committing the crime. That's something you guys arbitrarily accused me of because you disagreed with my posts. I just presented a rational reason for why many criminals happen to be black. That doesn't excuse their criminal behavior at all. "Contributing factor" and "reason" mean the same thing! They're synonyms. This is retarded.
When I first started posting on this thread, many posters were just making the issue into a racial matter and hinting that the reason many criminals are black is because they are an "inferior race." I merely presented a more rational, realistic reason.
Contributing factor and reason are not the same thing. If you say the reason for crime is where they live then the solution is to move them elsewhere, if you say it is a contributing factor then moving them doesn't solve the problem, it can only contribute to the solution. If you say the reason for their action is where they live then it is the fault of the place they live and no longer the fault of the person committing the crime. You have taken away the actual reason of choosing to commit the crime, they commit crimes because they live there.
(I am not saying this is your argument, this is just an example.)
How you say something is as important as what you are attempting to say.