> I know many people who have broken the law. Like most people, I break it all the time.
Clearly, it is worth making a distinction between crimes like robbery / theft / assault / murder and speeding.
> The US already has the largest prison population in the world.
In absolute numbers. Per capita, El Salvador does, coming on the heels of dramatically lowering their crime rates from some of the worst in the world to the best in Central America...by arresting everyone who caused problems and jailing them. The homicide rate went down by 98%, to 1.3, better than many European countries.
That's the sort of change that obviously makes a real difference.
> You're talking about the genocide of Indigenous Americans. You know the Comanche aren't the bad guys right?
Either you don't know very much about the Comanche, or you believe in some sort of alien Nietzschean morality, in which case we are definitely too far apart - but either way, I wasn't making a moral statement, simply illustrating how difficult it is to assimilate people with radically different norms who aren't interested.
Clearly, it is worth making a distinction between crimes like robbery / theft / assault / murder and speeding.
> The US already has the largest prison population in the world.
In absolute numbers. Per capita, El Salvador does, coming on the heels of dramatically lowering their crime rates from some of the worst in the world to the best in Central America...by arresting everyone who caused problems and jailing them. The homicide rate went down by 98%, to 1.3, better than many European countries.
That's the sort of change that obviously makes a real difference.
> You're talking about the genocide of Indigenous Americans. You know the Comanche aren't the bad guys right?
Either you don't know very much about the Comanche, or you believe in some sort of alien Nietzschean morality, in which case we are definitely too far apart - but either way, I wasn't making a moral statement, simply illustrating how difficult it is to assimilate people with radically different norms who aren't interested.