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Either the thief is prevented from committing further crimes, or more people will have their property stolen by him. There is a cost to refusing to press charg

by PKop 11y ago

Either the thief is prevented from committing further crimes, or more people will have their property stolen by him. There is a cost to refusing to press charges, paid by his future victims.

pyre 11y ago
Based on this logic, he should have been killed rather than arrested. No future victims!
- pavel_lishin 11y ago
  If we're going to play "absurd conclusions" game, my move is to declare that we should kill everyone. No future victims, ever!
s_q_b 11y ago
You're assuming the thief is a rational actor. I assure you, he was not.
- PKop 11y ago
  I'm describing what will happen. Motives are irrelevant to the point I was making.
  - s_q_b 11y ago
    But you're not describing what will happen. You're speculating based on your axiom that all offenders are recidivists.