Yet those are the explanations used to explain the success of the US and Australia – even though Canada’s performance is only fair to middling. What’s more, Denmark’s stock market has been on fire the past 20 years whereas the UK’s has been moribund. Consequently Britain has slipped ...
As for teaching me violence, my counter to that claim has been pretty much the same: while I doubt I’d be violent under any circumstances, the knowledge that I can go home and slice someone apart with a chainsaw is actually cathartic; it makes me less likely to chainsaw someone in re...