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What is the alternative though? Societal interventions are a slow, months to years long process to an acute problem. I'm sure most criminals can be reformed thr
by neither_color 5y ago
What is the alternative though? Societal interventions are a slow, months to years long process to an acute problem. I'm sure most criminals can be reformed through years of education, therapy and trauma healing but you can't deny that lax sentencing and lax enforcement contribute to opportunistic crime sprees like organized retail theft mobs and train robberies. Nobody needs to rob trains to eat, in America, as you put it.
- tomlockwood 5y ago> Nobody needs to rob trains to eat, in America, as you put it. They don't? That's not what I've heard. https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america https://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america
- creato 5y agoMy understanding is that most of the people struggling to feed themselves make too much money to qualify for assistance, but too little to reliably feed themselves. Obviously, those people aren't making too much money (as documented by the IRS and/or banks) by robbing trains.
- refurb 5y agoWhen they have to invent a new term "food insecurity" and your country leads the world in obesity, you know people aren't going hungry in the normal sense of the word.
- tomlockwood 5y agoDo you feel like the obese people are robbing these trains?
- refurb 5y agoSeen photos? Yes, some of them are obese. What’s your point?
- tomlockwood 5y agoOh, I guess some of them aren't hungry, then.
- refurb 5y ago
- tomlockwood 5y agoYou think people aren't going hungry because of the term "food insecurity". Ridiculous!
- PixyMisa 5y agoThe leading health problem among the poor in the US is obesity.