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> Why does robbing the bank from the inside get a relative slap on the wrist, while robbing it through the front door gets you shot? Because when you rob it fr
by nemo44x 5y ago
> Why does robbing the bank from the inside get a relative slap on the wrist, while robbing it through the front door gets you shot?
Because when you rob it from the outside you're probably using violence to threaten people with their lives. You don't think that's many, many times worse than someone cooking the books or stealing from the register?
- ashtonkem 5y agoThere are plenty of cases where the social standing of the defendant is determinant of the level of violence brought. Consider shop lifting vs. wage theft. Both are non violent, the latter is estimated to be many times more prevalent than the former. Only one will get you violently arrested though, and one is far more likely to be prosecuted than the other.
- themaninthedark 5y agoAlso if you use violence once, then you are more willing to use it in the future. This is bad for society as a whole.