Re: The joy of actual numbers, was Democracy

Charlie Gibbs wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

On 2024-11-03, The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
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On 02/11/2024 21:07, D wrote:
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In terms of crime of ex-military, another factor could be what they did
and experienced while in the military, and how well prepare they were to
enter society again after the military.

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A lot of organised crime post WWII was ex military, they basically
having been taught to do it.
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Also we had many many tramps (hobos) - ex servicemen suffering from what
we would now call PTSD, that simply couldn't deal with peace time.
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Not many came back from war undamaged in some way. If they came back at
all..

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Some became mercenaries because they just couldn't adapt to peacetime.

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