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No. Your point seems to state that committing a felony implies that a criminal is automatically willing to escalate to any other crime, as if anything resemblin
by dpark 7y ago
No. Your point seems to state that committing a felony implies that a criminal is automatically willing to escalate to any other crime, as if anything resembling rationality is impossible. I’m saying that’s absurd.
Car thieves don’t generally commit war crimes.
- jcims 7y agoThis is what i said: >Once you’re committing felonies the primacy of rational thought could be called into question. This is what you're saying i said: >Your point seems to state that committing a felony implies that a criminal is automatically willing to escalate to any other crime, as if anything resembling rationality is impossible. See the difference?
- dpark 7y agoNo, I don’t see the difference. You said that someone committing one felony will escalate to another felony because they can’t think rationally. The question was whether someone who’s willing to break into a parked car to steal it is willing to break into a house to assault the car owner in order to take their keys to steal the same car. You said yes, or at least you implied “yes” extremely strongly. If you don’t believe the answer is “yes” then I don’t know what the point of your comment was. PS: The fact that you thought my absurd extrapolation of your statement was making the same point tells me that you do indeed believe a car thief is likely to escalate to far worse crimes “because felony”.