alt Hacker News> Your "Venn diagram" is wrong. People don't decide against crime because they are dumb, they don't do it because of legal repercussions.
That's a factor that shrinks the "people inclined" circle. It doesn't change the analysis they're making, or make the analysis wrong.
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tsunamifury • today at 1:30 PM
History proves you wrong quite clearly. As information has spread violence and terrorism has reduced
It does make it wrong. Why do you assume that the "shrinkage" should come from messing around with information and information sources? The only permissible way to do that is to better the legal system. Bastardizing the information space under the pretense of fighting crime is much worse than the crime savings from it.