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or cure many severe socio-economic ills. "Let [the liberal elite] argue
church-state issues…all the way to the next funeral of an innocent kid caught
in the crossfire," he says. "Our guiding principle should be, `Build
churches, not jails’–or we will reap the whirlwind of our own moral
bankruptcy." (Paul, 1996, p. 27) DiIulio’s "super predators" are
born of abject "moral poverty," which he defines as: The poverty of
being without loving, capable, responsible adults who teach you right from
wrong. It is the poverty of being without parents, guardians, relatives,
friends, teachers, coaches, clergy and others who habituate you to feel joy at
others’ joy, pain at others’ pain, happiness when you do right, remorse when you
do wrong. It is the poverty of growing up in the virtual absence of people who
teach these lessons by their own everyday example, and who insist that you
follow suit and behave accordingly. In the extreme, it is the poverty of growing
up surrounded by deviant, delinquent, and criminal adults in chaotic,
dysfunctional, fatherless, Godless, and jobless settings where drug abuse and
child abuse are twins, and self-respecting young men literally aspire to get
away with murder. Scholars who study drugs and crime are only now beginning to
realize the social consequences of raising so many children in abject moral
poverty. The need to rebuild and resurrect the civil society (families,
churches, community groups) of high-crime, drug-plagued urban neighbourhoods is
not an intellectual or research hypothesis that requires testing. It’s a moral
and social imperative that requires doing – and doing now. (Bennett, et al,
1996, p. 22). It can be assumed that the "super predator" is actually
a young psychopath or psychotic. While these terms have become largely
interchangeable, thanks in large part to Hollywood, there are distinct
differences between the psychopath, the psychotic, and the Super Predator.
British Columbia Psychologist Robert Hare has done some ground breaking research
into the study of psychopaths and has found that psychopaths tend to under
utilize regions of the brain that integrate memories and emotions. These