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Originally Posted by jammies
That being so, however, many young men* like violence, and like power over others, and like to escape responsibility for their actions. That will never change (other than, perhaps, technologically modifying the genes that cause this behaviour) and rather than focusing on a particular subset of such young men, it is a more useful to think about how society should try to moderate the actions of ALL such young men by socializing them successfully.
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What mechanisms do we have, in 2016, to properly socialize young men? Especially when growing numbers of young men have no stable father in their lives? The collapse of marriage as an institution among the poor - and increasingly the middle-class - has been a social (and economic) catastrophe.