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Originally Posted by redpoint5
How many people shop at Whole Foods compared with Walmart?
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I don't know. Casual observation suggests that at any given time (that is, whenever I happen to be in one) there are likely to be more people shopping at the local Whole Foods than in the WalMart grocery section. OTOH, I think there's only one WF around here, and maybe half a dozen WMs within say a 25 mile radius.
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The statistics don't lie: ...
40% of women are obese. Not just a lot overweight, but obese to the point of having serious health threats.
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Did I claim otherwise? No, I said that (from my observation at least) the obese ones tend to shop at WalMart, the lean ones as Whole Foods. Cause and effect? Maybe, but if so, which way?
Of course that self-selection works in other ways, too. I very seldom meet anyone more than moderately overweight when I'm out hiking or biking, for instance.
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Police aren't running the lawyer calculus when they are arresting people who are breaking the law, and they aren't randomly throwing people into jail.
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And which imaginary utopia do you live in, then? Though I agree it's not strictly random, it's more like "That guy looks like a lowlife scumbag, let's hassle him and see what happens", with me having been that lowlife scumbag more times than I care to recall. While now that I have a good bit of money, the police seem not to be that interested (fingers crossed!).
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It's morally deficient to rationalize criminal behavior as an inevitable consequence of low economic standing, and broadly asserting that law enforcement is a gang of predators looking for easy prey is disgusting.
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I agree that it's disgusting. It's also true. Not only do they look for easy prey, they work to create more crime, by e.g. supporting the insane "War on Drugs".
Perhaps where you live, cops spend their time on burglary, assault, and so on. Hereabouts they seem a lot more concerned with things like doing sting operations to catch bars serving underage drinkers.