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> Criminals are in fact normal people. Could you elaborate more on this claim? In an ideal world, criminal behavior is supposed to be defined as abnormal and
by electrograv 7y ago
> Criminals are in fact normal people.
Could you elaborate more on this claim?
In an ideal world, criminal behavior is supposed to be defined as abnormal and unwanted behavior.
* Is my definition of “criminal” for an ideal world way off target?
* Or, are you mostly critiquing how non-ideal our current world is, and the injustice of many laws currently on the books?
* Something else?
- ChrisSD 7y agoMost people are not cops either. Most cultures (aside from some sometimes vocal subcultures) do appear to consider their abuses unwanted anomalous behaviour.
- vangelis 7y agoMost people are breaking some law, it just depends how vigorously we want to enforce the law against you.
- rhcom2 7y agoThe majority of Americans have smoked pot, are a majority now criminals?
- skissane 7y agoRead Alex Kozinski and Misha Tseytlin's classic essay "You're (Probably) a Federal Criminal" – http://alex.kozinski.com/articles/Youre_Probably_a_Federal_Criminal.pdf http://alex.kozinski.com/articles/Youre_Probably_a_Federal_C... - in the US, there are so many federal crimes, so expansively defined, that almost every adult has probably committed at least one, and the only thing keeping them from prison is that they aren't on some prosecutor's hitlist. And I don't think this is an exclusively American problem either, it is a problem in many other countries too.
- squarefoot 7y agoIt serves the side effect|purpose of making people actionable literally from birth. That is, if some day you become an inconvenient someone for people in power, it's just a matter of finding something you did in the past that can ruin your life Cardinal Richelieu style.