Polish Man Beaten To Death In potential Hate Crime By Gang Of 20 In Essex

OK, so: a happier culture is "better" because happier people are more productive.

Why is a culture that fosters greater productivity "better" than a culture that doesn't foster as much productivity?

It is because a more productive society makes a wealthier and hence more powerful society.

We can argue this all day. I know you're trying to basically find a way of distilling this down to "not objective". Few things are objective, 1 + 1 isn't objectively 2, the sky isn't objectively blue, and happiness and productivity aren't objectively good. However, there are certain axioms in the world that we accept in order to structure life. Happiness and productivity are good, 1 + 1 is the value of two, the sky is blue. By those axioms, western society is superior to Islamic culture.

Spain alone produces more research than the entire Islamic world, for instance.

It is because, ultimately, people's needs depends on the hierarchy of needs. When you have a society that doesn't allow a minority to fulfil the very basic need of sex in a way they see fit, it makes them miserable. Miserable people are less productive and are at greater risk of mental issues.

1. You concede you cannot justify picking one axiom over another (or at least you have given up attempting to do so).
2. When you compare x culture to y culture by reference to the axiom of your choice, then obviously one will come out more favourably than the other. Now, if our axiom was piety, Islamic culture could be said to be superior to Western culture.
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Not that it's at all relevant, but source? All I could find was a misquote of an article in The New Atlantis ("Spain and India each contribute more of the world’s scientific literature than those countries taken together" - but this is not "research" as we would commonly understand it: "although Spain is hardly an intellectual superpower, it translates more books in a single year than the entire Arab world has in the past thousand years".

these people have lived their entire lives under this different form of society, its the norm for them, they aren't being whisked out of freedom into this oppression as you seem to imply

1) Well, some axioms have more impact than others. 1 + 1 = 2 has more impact than 2 x 2 = 4.

2) Potentially. However, Piety doesn't have much of a real-world impact when compared with productivity and happiness, because you can compare the number of miracles to non-miracles and see it is almost negligible.

I remember somebody saying it

This raises far more questions than it answers (what does "impact" mean? why is your definition of "impact" the right one? how can we measure this "impact"? etc).

This is completely besides the point.

You can derive 2 x 2 = 4 from 1 + 1 =2. Impact is how much it influences the real world on its own.

I am not sure It is, since Piety isn't that influential.

You are defining your own terms and not resolving any of the aforementioned issues.


Influential in what way? Why is your definition of influential the right one? Etc...

My definition of influential is correct because it reflects general usage of the word. Happiness and productivity has more influence on the world than piety.

No It doesn't, that is why we are discussing culture and not genetics. Pointing out that different cultures and an increase in competition for unskilled work causes issues isn't some racist statement, you'd be angry too if a completely new culture came in and made it hard for you to get a job.

lol keep perpetuating the myth that eastern europeans are stealing working class jobs. Just an excuse for people to be lazy and play the victim.

Also if someone somehow is struggling to find work over someone who can barely speak the language then I'd say thats more a reflection upon their own failings. (and dont retort about nonsense of keeping down wages, its totally unfounded).

Teenage gangs generally tend to be full of idiots. They'd gang up on someone English if they had a haircut or clothing items they didn't like the look of.

That's not a completely insane suggestion. The influx of unskilled work from the former warsaw pact countries has made finding work for the working class much harder, and hence the anger and tension build. There is no doubt a cultural element too. Without the freedom of movement laws from the EU, this may have been avoided.

They are.

Well, as somebody who lives in a rural area, there are a good number of farmers who will pay extremely low wages to eastern europeans who pick apples in the fields.

Used to be terrible in my day.. pissed up gangs reguarly targeting individuals unlucky enough to walk by knocking them unconscious stamping on their head when down etc. Teens drinking on the streets isnt as common anymore round here but they were bad times

That's a bold statement to make, and to me, a little old fashioned.
Anyone know the employment stats for Essex? For unskilled work, how many EU immigrants is an individual likely to compete directly against?

On an unrelated note, this makes me feel so sad. How someone's life has been snuffed out so carelessly

Thanks but "They are" doesn't really constitute as proof now does it?

And how exactly is farmers paying low wages to eastern europeans picking apples in fields adversely effect British residents, most of whom wouldn't exactly be lining up for such a job?

Same mate. I was a skater back in my teens as well and 10 years ago it wasn't really "normal" to be a skater, so naturally we ended up legging it from massive groups of chavvies on numerous occasions and got into several fights if we weren't outnumbered. As you said you don't see it much anymore, also lucky for me I'm a pretty big fella these days so I can walk through groups of teenagers and have them all move out of my way without saying a word

Well, if you add more people to the workforce, especially a group that is known for hard work, then it will make it harder for the native population won't it?



Well, It is a thing called logic. If you increase the number of people without increasing the number of jobs, you will have a lower chance of getting a job, won't you?

Well, I think you'd be surprised. British people used to do the jobs, it is just that many people refuse to work for such low wages that the farmers are offering (I.E. Like £4 an hour, it is extremely low for illegal immigrants).

No. It's a thing called talking out of your arse with absolutely no evidence to back up your ridiculous claims.

http://cep.lse.ac.uk/pubs/download/ea019.pdf

Oh look Figure 6 on page 8; 'No relationship between changes in immigration and unemployment'.

Figure 7; 'No relationship between changes in immigration and local wages'.

I think I'll take LSE's empirical evidence over your "logic".


And you're naive if you think the British workforce would be able to replace the labour on farms.

http://www.fwi.co.uk/arable/farmers-fears-over-loss-of-seasonal-worker-scheme.htm

HR manager at Corbey farmsL
Last year, Cobrey employed 20 unemployed Brits for seasonal work, but none of them stayed for the whole season and most left after one day.“Most people who are unemployed in the UK don’t live where the work is available and they don’t want to do this sort of job,” she says.“The majority don’t want to come and cut asparagus for roughly the minimum wage. They think they’re worth more than that, but it’s still a very important job.”She insists that the SAWS scheme was the one thing that the UK Border Agency got right, as it allowed the best migrants to come and work in the UK, but only on restricted terms.Herefordshire soft fruit grower and NFU horticulture and potatoes board vice-chairman Anthony Snell says SAWS was well regulated and had been working well since the 1960s to help farms “bulk up” on seasonal staff shortages.He accuses the government of scrapping SAWS for short-term political gains to give the perception it is tackling immigration.But Mr Snell says SAWS was never about foreigners taking British people’s jobs.He would prefer to employ Brits, but maintains most unemployed workers don’t want low-skilled, seasonal manual labour – they want full-time jobs.“It would be nice to find unemployed Brits to do these jobs, but the work ethic is very different from what we’ve had from eastern Europeans in the past.”