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So tired of this notion that poor people have no morals. Someone who is capable of kidnapping a child for ransom is seriously fucked up. Paying that person off
by dahfizz 3y ago
So tired of this notion that poor people have no morals.
Someone who is capable of kidnapping a child for ransom is seriously fucked up. Paying that person off with welfare so they don't "have" to resort to heinous crimes, as if that's the default, is unconscionable.
- true_religion 3y agoThe moral reasoning behind kidnapping is: no one gets hurt, these rich people just have to live in the same conditions we do everyday for a week or two, then their parents will pay out of pocket change more money than we can make in our entire lives. That logic isn’t really true, but it’s what kidnappers tell themselves. No one ever feels like they are truly immoral.
- dahfizz 3y agoI'm not really concerned with what the criminal tells themself. I am concerned about society at large sympathizing and excusing criminal behavior because the criminal was poor.
- pc_edwin 3y agoI'm sympathetic to your comment but I do think he has a point, it seems both of you guys are speaking past each other. I think modern society is quick to cast criminality as either circumstantial or biological. There is a non zero percentage of the population that are sociopaths and psychopaths with a top percentile disagreeableness trait yet most of these people are fully integrated functioning members of society. Although their might be predispositions, I think its moral narratives that turn an otherwise "normal" person into criminality. This goes back to your point, we should not be empathising of excusing those among us who have missed the mark with their moral narratives and downstream actions that follow.