Bob FM: It is a fact that if you are raised in a criminal household, statistically you will be familiar with those activities and risk veering towards them. Yes, fortunately, there will always be the exception, and with stronger external peer-pressure and role models the numbers should increase. A child from an educated household, or skilled one, or unskilled one for that matter, is more likely to gravitate to parental mores than not. The middle-class, on average, live ten years longer than the Industrial working-class. That difference can be accounted for, almost entirely by cultural, environmental and geopathic differences between the two social classes.
When discussing freedom of choice, you would do well to examine what those choices are, and who determines them. I believe in democracy, but in our culture, democracy and freedom only exist under the law, and may that always be the case. Well funded pressure-groups always challenge democracy and freedom of that 'variety'. The countries who appear conspicuous on your list, are the same ones whose freedom to-day was imposed upon them in 1945, by the victorious powers. Their immature concepts of freedom and democracy, of the kind that you support, had led them uniformly to grief a decade or two earlier.
I think that you will find that many others will leave the party before me.
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