If we pull faces and say that the only moral position is to write off the rioters as thugs and monsters, we’re left with the question of why some communities break out into fire and some do not, why some people’s children are rioting in the streets and some are not. If we eliminate, out of the principle of not wanting to make excuses, these are the options left for why rioting tends to be so strongly associated with poverty: The poor are inherently, perhaps genetically inferior people with violence born into them. I personally reject this thesis, as it’s never been proven with scientific evidence, and not for lack of trying from those who stand to gain from the discovery that inherent inferiority creates poverty, and not social injustice.