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Many a gravestone bears the epitaph "but I was right." Of course criminals are wrong, to blame, and should be punished. Still, people are responsible for secur
by kolpa 9y ago
Many a gravestone bears the epitaph "but I was right."
Of course criminals are wrong, to blame, and should be punished. Still, people are responsible for securing their own safety for as long as criminals exist.
- bigiain 9y agoAgreed - part of that is locking your car. But at least as big a part is paying your taxes, contributing to society, requiring your political representatives to write appropriate and sensible laws, ensuring the police are funded and trained to catch people who break them, ensuring the courts are capable and willing to punish them. "Securing safety" should be mostly a collective thing, not an individual thing. Society as a whole has a lot better opportunity to deter crime in the first place and to reduce the incidences overall - than most individuals do. [edit]Oh, and not stealing other people's shit yourself, or giving a pass to your friends or family who do.