[Pfhortune]

As the person you replied to said:

> We increasingly put people in bad situations and then blame them when they lash out.

They are not _justifying_ it, they are calling out a cause/effect relationship. When people are desperate, they do destructive things. And our society is doing things that increase the number of desperate people.

[codemac]

You have to be more specific about the "bad situation" imo.

A lot of crime gets blamed on all kinds of causes, but with a cause so vague all kinds of counterfactuals can be listed out: poverty doesn't explain why countries with more surveillance and more poverty have less crime like home invasions (CCCP).

[Pfhortune]

> countries with more surveillance and more poverty have less crime like home invasions (CCCP).

I am eager to learn more if you have some data/links on this

WRT home invasions, I'm sure the ubiquity of guns in the US is another relevant dimension.