alt Hacker NewsAnd these thieves were already well cared for in a healthy society with all sorts of opportunities available to them regardless of social status, skin color, and mental heath?
Crime goes down when the gap between the rich and the poor goes down.
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stickfigure • last Sunday at 10:25 PM
Some people just want drugs.
chronci3740 • last Monday at 12:54 AM
> Crime goes down when the gap between the rich and the poor goes down.
Counterexample: China.
No. We (society) don’t need to care for everyone equally.
Look at sibling comments on copper theft in Scandinavian countries.
The idea that humans only commit crime out of necessity and wouldn't do it if they could just get a 9-5 job is extremely naive.