I didn't deny a spiritual component. Neither did I propose that people were not responsible, personally, for their actions. These are both profoundly important truths, and I would never fault you, or anyone, for affirming them.  

I was simply proposing that the contexts in which crime and some other human ills flourish, particularly those contexts we are discussing, are not neutral or benign in origin, but rather that they have been produced intentionally and systematically by those that have the power to promote advantage for some segments of the population and disadvantage for others. The narrative that this arrangement is warranted, and made proper by the failings of the disadvantaged population, relative to the contrasting excellencies of the advantaged, extends back for centuries. 

My thought was that there is cause for moral reflection, perhaps aided by reference to statutory history, by all of us, and perhaps most particularly by those that promulgate this narrative. 

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