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Are you saying the punishment for shoplifting should be less if you're disadvantaged compared to if you're not?
by pc86 5y ago
Are you saying the punishment for shoplifting should be less if you're disadvantaged compared to if you're not?
- thot_experiment 5y agoNo, I'm saying the reality is that the punishment often IS harsher if you're from a disadvantaged group. I think the punishments should be harsher for wage theft than shoplifting because the former is abusing a position of power, which I believe to be more corrosive to the fabric of society. Though I also believe punishments should be proportional to your means, see for example speeding tickets in Finland. You shouldn't be able to afford to ignore the rules.
- lores 5y agoNot to mention that stealing $100 from 100 workers is objectively a worse crime than stealing $100 from a shop owner, and yet the former is not even punished. Talk about regulatory capture, eh?
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- mschuster91 5y agoFor what it's worth, that was the legal situation in Germany until 1975 [1]. A shame in my opinion that even small-scale theft under extraordinary circumstances got handled as a full blown crime since then. [1] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundraub https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mundraub
- jslaby 5y agoYes
- ALittleLight 5y agoIn the current regime it seems like crimes are punished less if you are advantaged. The current system seems like a worse arrangement to me because it adds disadvantage to disadvantage.
- aaomidi 5y agoActually, yes. Punishment doesn't fix the need to shoplift. Maybe if we stop trying to solve everything with cops we'd actually make some social progress?