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CMV: If the purge was real, the population of the US would significantly drop for the purge.

I saw the first Purge movie… and hated it. Horrible movie, the characters were annoyingly stupid and I think the idea as a whole was pretty moronic. 

If the purge was to actually happen, I believe that a good amount (meaning millions) of Americans would leave the country for the purge, wait it out and then come back.

Regardless of the type of behavior that is displayed on social media and on the news, a vast majority of people are decent and civil.

Most people do not need the most heinous crimes to be illegal for them to not commit it. 

I think plenty of people would steal and rob from stores. But most people would not go out to beat, torture, rape and kill just because they can.

On the days leading up to the Purge, I think millions would be driving across the border to Canada. Others would probably take their chance in Mexico or Caribbean islands. Those with the means would undoubtedly be leaving fro Asia or Europe during that time.
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The point of the movie was that the wealthy have privledges to avoid The Purge that the poor don’t have. Poor people don’t have the luxury to just leave the country. And in the most recent purge movie Canada and Mexico open their borders for the first time to let innocent people in, suggesting that they closed their borders to Americans in the lead up to prior purges. 
And also one of the points is that homeless and poor people are killed, hence why they said that homelessness was solved…because they’re all killed during the purge.
Finally it’s a dystopian movie where society has become more brutal, so the idea of “most people are civil” doesn’t pertain to the movie because the point is that “civilized” people have a dark side that is allowed to come out once a year. 
And one more thing, even if most of the people in society within the movie are good and don’t kill, the movie is not going to fixate on that. If your dream is to rob Best Buy and snort cocaine in Central Square, it’s not as exciting on screen as people getting killed. Most of the people in this fictional America aren’t killing, they’re just not worth watching. Would you be excited to watch a slasher movie that showed characters sitting around eating food by themselves? No, you pay to watch people die and such.