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What about preventing and reducing crime, and reducing how many people becoming perpetrators and victims? Ultimately, humans don't randomly make choices. It is
by kiba 4y ago
What about preventing and reducing crime, and reducing how many people becoming perpetrators and victims?
Ultimately, humans don't randomly make choices. It is up to us if we want to prioritize less suffering for everyone and fixing the problems in the first place, or prioritizing some sort of vengeance.
- whiddershins 4y agoHumans really do have agency. Not all criminal behavior can be chalked up to bad policy or bad environment.
- kiba 4y agoHumans really do have agency. Not all criminal behavior can be chalked up to bad policy or bad environment. If cause and effect exists in human beings as they do for literally everything else, than claiming 'agency' as an excuse to do nothing is basically moral bankruptcy. Our science is not perfect, nor is our policies, and people will fall through the cracks, but we should keep striving and trying nonetheless.
- bombcar 4y agoSome causal things society would likely be unwilling to give up; and so some portion of society being sacrificed to prisons is what we're willing to pay for it.