Behold, the single greatest innovation of capitalism!

[GenesisNemesis]

Party affiliation has little to do with it. Shoplifting concentrates wherever wealth inequality is extreme

Nooo wealth inequality is somehow completely unconnected to crime, we must never look at the causes of crime and just blame people (and drugs or video games) instead. That'll fix it.

 

[Jarhyn]

Party affiliation has little to do with it. Shoplifting concentrates wherever wealth inequality is extreme

Nooo wealth inequality is somehow completely unconnected to crime, we must never look at the causes of crime and just blame people (and drugs or video games) instead. That'll fix it.

When we constrain others such that they may ONLY make bad choices, this is a function of our wills, not theirs.

In that situation, while they chose this crime, freely, over that crime, someone else had a choice of offering them crime or not-crime.

Not offering someone something viable not-crime when the opportunity was there for you is far worse than someone else selecting crime when the options they were handed were "crime or more crime".

The only thing that someone could possibly find themselves responsible is "picking the best apparent option from bad options".

Hence why even as a compatibilist who thinks people are responsible as they are now for the choices they make today and tomorrow and the next, if the only other responses are still bad, someone else is responsible for something much more important, in turn.

WE already don't expect people to attempt things that won't work or to attempt options they do not have. There's nothing to learn from with "do what you cannot right now as you are". It's a stupid request.

So I blame people who don't give the homeless, poor, and economically overlooked any option but to commit crimes for creating that situation just as much as I blame the homeless people for taking the best of bad options... But there's little to be learned about taking the best of bad options and much to be learned for those who present only bad options when they can afford better.

As a result, I clap the homeless on the back for at least taking the BEST of the bad options and I kick the rent seeker in the teeth for their own part in the badness of said options.

 

[TV and credit cards]

Oddly enough, I thought this would be about the 50 year mortgage.

Behold. A guy name Pulte has a great idea.
Step right up folks. You too can live in the home of your dreams.

 

[bilby]

Party affiliation has little to do with it. Shoplifting concentrates wherever wealth inequality is extreme

Nooo wealth inequality is somehow completely unconnected to crime, we must never look at the causes of crime and just blame people (and drugs or video games) instead. That'll fix it.

It is well known that the sole cause of all crime is bad people.

Bad people commit all the crimes, and to eliminate crime, all we need do is identify all the bad people, and lock them up (or execute them).

Occasionally, I do things that an uninformed observer might mistake for badness; But fortunately, I am a good person, so I only do such things when I have a complete and morally sound justification for my actions.

Indeed, by lacking the charity and wisdom to understand that my actions are ultimately good (as they must be, because I am a good person), anyone who falsely accuses me of bad behaviour is identifying themselves as an agent of Satan.

Of course, other people (particularly those who look or behave very differently from me*), cannot ever justify their criminal actions. They are just bad people, and nothing short of their permanent removal from society can ever prevent them from committing crimes.

The simplest way to do this is for a good person to just shoot bad people dead on sight. This saves the expensive, confusing, and needless excercise of so-called "due process", which is just a way for bad people to get away with being bad.

After all, if a person wasn't bad, why would God ever put the suspicion that they are into the heart of a good man?











* It goes without saying that my appearance and lifestyle are the standard of normality, from which other people only deviate because they are sub-normal in various ways.

 

[bilby]

Oddly enough, I thought this would be about the 50 year mortgage.

Behold. A guy name Pulte has a great idea.
Step right up folks. You too can live in the home of your dreams.

Back in the run up to the Great War, it was well known that the most powerful man in Germany was whoever last spoke to the Kaiser.

Of course, that situation fortunately ended well for everyone*, so we needn't be too concerned. At least Kaiser Wilhelm didn't have nuclear weapons.












* Well, apart from the nineteen million or so dead, the millions more who were seriously wounded, the millions whose homes were destroyed, and the establishment of the conditions that led to the Holocaust, the rise of Nazism, and ultimately another World War with a further seventy five million deaths.

But apart from that, it turned out fairly well.