alt Hacker News> Deterrence doesn't affect crimes born from impulse
And yet I've seen way more people call an Uber instead of drive home drunk not because they thought they'd kill someone, but because they didn't want a DUI.
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loeg • yesterday at 7:24 PM
To put it another way: crimes of pure impulse, with zero forethought, are a subset of all crimes.
Sounds like the insight is that people have varying degrees of forethought. Crime isn't mono-causal and therefore solutions shouldn't be expected to be monolithic.