Generally it's financed by American Apparel, as far as I can tell.<br><br>Goddamn! It's a nice day out for a ride!<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/28/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jim Leonard</b> <<a href="mailto:jim_bcm@xuth.net">
jim_bcm@xuth.net</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 01:34:21PM -0400, ian schwartz wrote:
<br>> I don't know if I agree. When you consider that casual drug use is so<br>> prevalent among the youth in Boston, terms like addict become blurred.<br>> Somebody in his 20's using drugs on a bi-weekly basis might not think
<br>> of himself as a drug addict, and indeed may not be judged by other<br>> drug users as being one. How many days a week do you have to get high<br>> before you get the label?<br><br>But I fail to see how this is related to bike theft. Most of the "casual"
<br>drug use is not financed by theft.<br><br>--jim<br><br><br><br><br>><br>> Perhaps there are actual numbers in existence somewhere rather than conjecture?<br>><br>> > Message: 3<br>> > Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2007 13:16:46 -0400
<br>> > From: John Hays <<a href="mailto:jjhays2@gmail.com">jjhays2@gmail.com</a>><br>> > Subject: Re: [*BCM*] John Hays<br>> > To: Boston Critical Mass <<a href="mailto:list@bostoncriticalmass.org">
list@bostoncriticalmass.org</a>><br>> > Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:46FD36FE.7030603@gmail.com">46FD36FE.7030603@gmail.com</a>><br>> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed<br>> >
<br>> > I apologize if my language was unclear - I didn't mean to suggest that,<br>> > as individuals, college students and 20 year olds are, generally<br>> > thieves. I was expressing, in perhaps too colloquially a manner,
<br>> > generalizations about those groups across a large population. If you<br>> > were to take a million people in their 50s, and a million people in<br>> > their 20s, the odds are overwhelming that the group of 20 year olds
<br>> > would contain far, far more thieves than the group of 50 year olds. Of<br>> > the data we have about criminal behavior, we are able to make a few<br>> > highly supported generalizations, among them being that young people (as
<br>> > a group) commit more crime than older people, and men (as a group)<br>> > commit more crime than women (as well as a few other, less fashionable<br>> > generalizations that we don't necessarily have to get into).
<br>> ><br>> > I should point out that I am 24, and the overwhelming majority of my<br>> > friends are obviously in their 20s.<br>> ><br>> > And I rather think my position is far, far more defensible than the
<br>> > ludicrous notion that --drug addicts-- are responsible for most of the<br>> > city's property theft.<br>> ><br>> > - John<br>> ><br>> ><br>> ><br>> > ian schwartz wrote:
<br>> > > "College students, and young people in their 20s generally, are<br>> > > inveterate thieves"<br>> > ><br>> > > Is this really your viewpoint? That 20-somethings and college kids
<br>> > > steal out of some long-ingrained habit? Or were you just making a<br>> > > broad sweeping generality for the sake of driving home your poorly<br>> > > thought out point?<br>> > > _______________________________________________
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