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Since Three felonies a day is true almost everywhere in the world it’s clearly risky behavior to interact with police. Of course police is usually helpful just

by lixtra 7y ago

Since Three felonies a day is true almost everywhere in the world it’s clearly risky behavior to interact with police. Of course police is usually helpful just like the rest of humans. Your local mafia clan are also nice people as long as you play by their rules (you can study organized crime in favelas where it is an ordering element similar to police).

msla 7y ago
The Three Felonies A Day is an example of politics, not research, and has some rather motivated reasoning: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22530/does-the-average-american-unwittingly-commit-three-felonies-a-day https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22530/does-the-... I'm on your side. Please don't make our shared side weaker by using poor arguments.
- coldtea 7y ago
  >The Three Felonies A Day is an example of politics, not research, and has some rather motivated reasoning: A "sceptics" link is hardly refutation. These sites attract professional "minor detail pickers" and "technically-correct" pedants, who more often than not miss the forest for the trees. The message is not the exact number of felonies per time period, it's that people can have all kind of laws broken and given causes to be arrested without them knowing it. Even if it's 1 felony per month or 1 per year it's still more than enough, and that's the point of "thee felonies a day".
  - sjy 7y ago
    Well, did you read the link? The top answer puts forward a convincing case that the book fails to show that "people can have all kind of laws broken and given causes to be arrested without them knowing it." There are wrongful charges and convictions in every legal system, and contrary to the last sentence of your comment, it matters a lot whether these occur 1,000 times more or less frequently.
    - cheez 7y ago
      Fortunately, you only have to pay the low price of $20K to get wrongful charges thrown out, or $500K + years of your life for wrongful convictions.

by lixtra 7y ago

msla 7y ago

The Three Felonies A Day is an example of politics, not research, and has some rather motivated reasoning: https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22530/does-the-average-american-unwittingly-commit-three-felonies-a-day https://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/22530/does-the-... I'm on your side. Please don't make our shared side weaker by using poor arguments.

coldtea 7y ago
>The Three Felonies A Day is an example of politics, not research, and has some rather motivated reasoning: A "sceptics" link is hardly refutation. These sites attract professional "minor detail pickers" and "technically-correct" pedants, who more often than not miss the forest for the trees. The message is not the exact number of felonies per time period, it's that people can have all kind of laws broken and given causes to be arrested without them knowing it. Even if it's 1 felony per month or 1 per year it's still more than enough, and that's the point of "thee felonies a day".
- sjy 7y ago
  Well, did you read the link? The top answer puts forward a convincing case that the book fails to show that "people can have all kind of laws broken and given causes to be arrested without them knowing it." There are wrongful charges and convictions in every legal system, and contrary to the last sentence of your comment, it matters a lot whether these occur 1,000 times more or less frequently.
  - cheez 7y ago
    Fortunately, you only have to pay the low price of $20K to get wrongful charges thrown out, or $500K + years of your life for wrongful convictions.