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> Can you stop criminals being criminals ? No. [Citation needed] This mindset—that assigns people into immutable categories, "criminal" and "not criminal"—is
by danaris 3y ago
> Can you stop criminals being criminals ? No.
[Citation needed]
This mindset—that assigns people into immutable categories, "criminal" and "not criminal"—is actually one of the biggest things that needs to change.
We absolutely can stop criminals from being criminals. We just can't do so by pointing at them and saying "Stop! Bad!" We have to change the incentives, remove the reasons they became criminal in the first place (usually poverty), and make it easier, safer, and more acceptable to go from being a criminal to being a not-criminal again.