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Seems like blaming the symptom and not the cause, along with proposing an individual-morality-centric solution. It is similar to blaming the climate crisis on
by lamontcg 5y ago
Seems like blaming the symptom and not the cause, along with proposing an individual-morality-centric solution.
It is similar to blaming the climate crisis on lack of individual effort.
The left is also never going to get people to be that enlightened about the security of their personal property. Focusing the average person's reasonable amount of personal property over private property / capital is always going to be a losing proposition for the left.
Focusing on reducing inequality, providing more universal services (health care, child care, college) and reforming the cops to not be racist are the kinds of things that the left can actually sell the majority of the population.
The bulk of the population though does want cops to show up with guns when people have broken into their house or their neighbors house. They don't want to be potentially raped/murdered and they don't want their shit stolen. The vast majority of people fall under this category, which is why even in my very progressive-leaning zip code in Seattle most of the houses are growing ring cameras these days. It might be a nice leftist ideal to not care about your own belongings because you're better off than everyone else, but put to a vote in the population that is always going to get voted down. Theft as a solution to homelessness is a policy that the average citizen is going to reject.
Its like the left in this country only cares about being individually virtuous and doesn't care about getting anything done politically. Sometimes I wonder if they only swapped out religion in their life with leftist social politics but they still need to get that fix of being better than everyone else.
- rkk3 5y agoI thought the Harvard Professor's take was pretty out of touch > “It’s my pretty firm belief,” says Gilliard, “that the police should not be called unless someone’s life is in danger.” Sure it'd be extreme to call the police for someone egging your car, but what if they stole his car.
- 908B64B197 5y agoI don't think it's extreme. Vandalism creates a slippery slope where criminals now know that the neighborhood "doesn't care". Unless it's a prank by local teenagers of course.
- rkk3 5y agoDo you think career criminals go around town throwing eggs during Halloween ? Vandalism implies actual damages...
- wesapien 5y agoI don't think it even matters if cops are armed or not; by the time they get to my home the damage is done. Security should start at the individual (home/family) and community level. The cost of being a victim is not redistributed to society. Society won't have to deal with increasing insurance rates, potential costs for repairs or damage, trauma, loss of life, etc.
- 908B64B197 5y ago> The bulk of the population though does want cops to show up with guns when people have broken into their house or their neighbors house. They don't want to be potentially raped/murdered and they don't want their shit stolen. The vast majority of people fall under this category, which is why even in my very progressive-leaning zip code in Seattle most of the houses are growing ring cameras these days. There's an alternative to the Ring camera, thanks to the second amendment and the castle doctrine.