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I live next to a grocery store with a high rate of shoplifting and I disagree. Grocery stores are not charity. The issue has gotten so bad that freezers contain
by tyleo 4y ago
I live next to a grocery store with a high rate of shoplifting and I disagree. Grocery stores are not charity. The issue has gotten so bad that freezers containing frozen sea food and ice cream now have locks on them.
Problems should be solved with real solutions rather than sacrificing businesses who are not equipped to solve the problem. In other words, if “property rights should not be above human life” then cities should provide for those lives through taxes and meal programs rather than letting random businesses be targets.
- mcphage 4y ago> then cities should provide for those lives through taxes and meal programs rather than letting random businesses be targets. I agree, but America as a nation isn't really big on social safety nets.
- tyleo 4y agoIn my opinion, America not being okay with social safety nets is not equivalent to shop lifting being okay. It seems to me either: * Americans care about shoplifting but not social safety nets and it would mean that society has implicitly decided that some shoplifting folks may not get the support they need. * Americans care about shoplifting and social safety nets enough to force political change. I think what doesn't seem okay to me is to say, "Americans care about shoplifting but not social safety nets... but we are going to make an end run around what society thinks and allow shoplifting as a solution to the social safety net problem".