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Comment by closewith

> Put the criminals in prison. Do it often enough, and shoplifting ceases to be a problem of plague-like proportions. Big fan of accountability and immediate personal consequences and enforcing the law.

This just doesn't work. A high-trust society cannot be built by force.

> I am fatigued of the suicidal and deleterious empathy of those in charge who refuse to take second-order effects into account.

The irony here is palpable. An increasingly desperate poverty class with no hope of social mobility has many second-order effects, and none of them can be policed out of existence.

parent closewith 1 year ago

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