Sweden and Crime

Hume’s further concern is chiefly to show that it is only the universal application of the same “general and inflexible rules of justice” which will secure the establishment of a general order, that this and not any particular aims or results must guide the application of the rules if an order is to be the result. Any concern with particular ends of either the individuals or the community, or a regard for the merits of particular individuals, would entirely spoil that aim.--Hayek

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The word 'fan' is an abbreviation of fanatic which originally described a religious maniac as if possessed by a deity, from Latin fanum (temple).

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It is fascinating that anyone can argue intermittent and indefinitely mandatory face coverings don’t constitute a loss of freedom. If mandates are not a loss of freedom, what is?

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...we show that Black students randomly assigned to at least one Black teacher in grades K–3 are 9 percentage points (13 percent) more likely to graduate from high school and 6 percentage points (19 percent) more likely to enroll in college compared to their Black schoolmates who are not. Black teachers have no significant long-run effects on White students.--from a research paper

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Sweden and Crime

For the first time, crime tops the list of voters' most important concerns in the run-up to the elections.
Of the more than 8,200 people the Swedish police counted as being members of criminal gangs by late 2021, almost 15% were under the age of 18.
Sweden has in just two generations gone from being one of the safest countries in the world to being one of the most dangerous countries in Europe. During the same time, mass immigration has dramatically altered Sweden's population. 1.2 million of those eligible to vote in the elections in September 2022 were born outside Sweden.
Sweden has one of the world's worst recorded rape rates. In 2018, the state broadcaster SVT revealed that 58% of men convicted in Sweden of rape and attempted rape over the previous five years were born abroad.

This is from an article in Gateway and contains a lot of worrisome observations. The question is, are the implications valid? Does crime have cultural roots and nourishment? Is globalization destabilizing? Is cultural continuity valuable and can it be easily disrupted? Does rape have a cultural interface?

We are developing a fluid world, for better or worse. We must have a better idea of who we are, individually and in groups.