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> petty offences (which practically everyone commits with > some non-zero frequency, This isn't Josef K in Kafka's Der Process. Most people don't have any t

> petty offences (which practically everyone commits with > some non-zero frequency, This isn't Josef K in Kafka's Der Process. Most people don't have any trouble avoiding arrestable behavior. Lawlessness is not a virtue. >ignorance of suffering Ads for bad for-pay universitites are good to remind us of... suffering? And sorry, but even "awareness of suffering" isn't virtuous either. It's what you DO about what you know.

macintux 10y ago
> Most people don't have any trouble avoiding arrestable behavior. I think we've pretty well established the past couple of years that there is no lower bound on what's considered "arrestable behavior" when it comes to minorities in the US.
- burgreblast 10y ago
  >there is no lower bound on what's considered "arrestable behavior" Really? I wouldn't throw in the towel. If there's corruption, that's still a crime. Why not figure out how to highlight it and stop it? When you find bugs in your code do you throw up your hands and proclaim that it could be anywhere so it's too hard to find and fix? Do you not fix the easy-to-see bugs because that's somehow unfair? Do you not fix the harder-to-find bugs becuase your biased? You make the software operate according to your vision and purpose. You and go out of your way to ensure order and correctness. No need to shrug off harder-to-solve social issues as impossible.
  - NotSammyHagar 10y ago
    > If there's corruption, that's still a crime. Why not figure out how to highlight it and stop it? That sounds nice, but in practice, white collar crime, often committed by white people, has much lower incarceration rates than simple drug crimes. Even in Seattle, where its now legal to posses pot but not legal to smoke it publicly (yet this is routinely ignored), we found that black people were being incarcerated at a much higher rate than white people for public smoking of pot. An investigation found that there was one freaking cop who went around arresting tons of black people for this 'crime'. This is the world we live in. Edited to fix a typo
    - danielscrubs 10y ago
      Let's just make sure 'criminals' are behind bars, no matter race. If you are having problems with drugs contact me and I'll give you details about a clinic in Seattle.
  - YeGoblynQueenne 10y ago
    >> When you find bugs in your code do you throw up your hands and proclaim that it could be anywhere so it's too hard to find and fix? My rule of thumb for reasoning about things other than code: your code is like your code, and nothing else is quite like your code. Ergo, don't expect that you can fix everything that's wrong with the Western civilisation just 'cause you can debug something you hacked together in a week or so.
GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
> arrestable behavior For example, "breathing while black."

macintux 10y ago

> Most people don't have any trouble avoiding arrestable behavior. I think we've pretty well established the past couple of years that there is no lower bound on what's considered "arrestable behavior" when it comes to minorities in the US.

burgreblast 10y ago
>there is no lower bound on what's considered "arrestable behavior" Really? I wouldn't throw in the towel. If there's corruption, that's still a crime. Why not figure out how to highlight it and stop it? When you find bugs in your code do you throw up your hands and proclaim that it could be anywhere so it's too hard to find and fix? Do you not fix the easy-to-see bugs because that's somehow unfair? Do you not fix the harder-to-find bugs becuase your biased? You make the software operate according to your vision and purpose. You and go out of your way to ensure order and correctness. No need to shrug off harder-to-solve social issues as impossible.
- NotSammyHagar 10y ago
  > If there's corruption, that's still a crime. Why not figure out how to highlight it and stop it? That sounds nice, but in practice, white collar crime, often committed by white people, has much lower incarceration rates than simple drug crimes. Even in Seattle, where its now legal to posses pot but not legal to smoke it publicly (yet this is routinely ignored), we found that black people were being incarcerated at a much higher rate than white people for public smoking of pot. An investigation found that there was one freaking cop who went around arresting tons of black people for this 'crime'. This is the world we live in. Edited to fix a typo
  - danielscrubs 10y ago
    Let's just make sure 'criminals' are behind bars, no matter race. If you are having problems with drugs contact me and I'll give you details about a clinic in Seattle.
- YeGoblynQueenne 10y ago
  >> When you find bugs in your code do you throw up your hands and proclaim that it could be anywhere so it's too hard to find and fix? My rule of thumb for reasoning about things other than code: your code is like your code, and nothing else is quite like your code. Ergo, don't expect that you can fix everything that's wrong with the Western civilisation just 'cause you can debug something you hacked together in a week or so.

GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago

> arrestable behavior For example, "breathing while black."