3 ms·
Why are they breaking into your house? Are they going to take your house for a joy ride until they can't anymore and then just find another house to drive? I'm
by undersuit 3y ago
Why are they breaking into your house? Are they going to take your house for a joy ride until they can't anymore and then just find another house to drive?
I'm not advocating that you just stop caring about crime, I want you to think about how we can address the root causes. One of them being the prevalence of easily theft-able, expensive possessions we store on the street.
- akomtu 3y agoBurglars want to change ownership of things in your house, so why don't we move on to communal ownership where all things are shared? The root of the problem is the "seed of evil", also known as selfishness or the idea of separateness. But selfishness is a necessary step in evolution, and if you remove all shiny things that provoke greed, and all other things that make selfishness meaningful, you'd derail the evolution. So, shiny things that people can own and display bring more good than harm at this point.
- undersuit 3y agoOK cool you have a hypothesis on how you can reduce the amount of harm done in the world. How are you going to go about doing something about it? Are you going to increase the severity of the punishment for stealing a car? Or should you address a root cause? To use your metaphor a seed would be much easier to control than trying to tell a grown tree where to drop its leaves in the fall.