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> exceedingly effective at dissuading the sort of people who designed and operate the system from committing crime More like the people who designed and operat
by saas_co_de 9y ago
> exceedingly effective at dissuading the sort of people who designed and operate the system from committing crime
More like the people who designed and operate the system consider everything they do legal and only criminalize the activity of people not like them.
- weberc2 9y ago> More like the people who designed and operate the system consider everything they do legal This is true by definition. Anyway, what sort of violent crime do you propose to legalize?
- lostlogin 9y agoHere is one that is fraught where I live - disciplining children with a smack. Many people think hitting children in a disciplinary context should be legal.
- pbhjpbhj 9y agoHitting or smacking? Smacks are a very limited subset of hits.
- bradknowles 9y agoHow do you define a “smack” versus a “hit”?
- stordoff 9y agoYou probably also need to consider things like how often is physical discipline being used, and is it actual discipline or just an excuse for abuse.
- ygaf 9y agoWhat is more wrong - a parent physically abusing their child when they feel like it (bear in mind the parent is also taking care of said child)? a parent bound by society reduced to moaning at their child (think kids under 10) hoping to control them? I know which is more perverse.
- DanBC 9y agoYou don't. All forms of hitting children are abusive.
- dane-pgp 9y agoShouting at, or ignoring, children is also (emotionally) abusive. Should we lock up parents who ever act in one of those ways towards their children? Also, what about when children hit their siblings, or their parents, or their class mates? I don't think that locking these children up is conducive to their welfare either.
- lostlogin 9y agoIf one does neither it doesn’t matter.
- coldtea 9y agoBar brawls between consenting adults.
- maxerickson 9y agoIt'd be interesting to see how often the state presses assault charges without much participation from one of the parties involved.
- saas_co_de 9y agoNot often unless they already have a reason to target the person (repeat offender, wanted for another crime they can't prove, etc). I remember being in Texas and seeing on the news how a guy shot another guy in a bar and they were not prosecuting because the person who was shot was not pressing charges, but that's Texas.
- saas_co_de 9y ago> what sort of violent crime do you propose to legalize Hundreds of thousands die and are injured every year from prescription drugs, faulty automobiles, guns, and all manner of other defective products. Why not criminalize those violent crimes?
- throwaway894345 9y agoManslaughter and murder are already criminalized, at least in the United States. Where do you live?
- saas_co_de 9y agoHow many executives and board members of companies manufacturing opiate pain killers (to give only one example) have you seen charged with manslaughter recently?
- refurb 9y agoWell considering drug companies aren't the one who prescribe the drug, I'd be shocked to see many of them in prison. Doctor's, on the other hand, have been sent to prison for out of control prescribing of opioids.
- tehwebguy 9y agoSure but parent mentioned things that are virtually un-prosecutable.