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If a crime was committed, the state generally assumes the prosecution --- i.e. no expense to you. You can't get blood out of a rock but you can incarcerate it
by jqpabc123 3y ago
If a crime was committed, the state generally assumes the prosecution --- i.e. no expense to you.
You can't get blood out of a rock but you can incarcerate it.
- Dylan16807 3y agoThat's free if it's big enough to get their attention, and the culprit is known. But I don't want free revenge, I want my stuff/money back. An actual remedy.
- jqpabc123 3y agoI want my stuff/money back. As the Rolling Stones pointed out years ago (maybe before you were born), "You can't always get what you want" --- yadda, yadda, etc., etc.. It is not just about giving you what you want. The fact that *legal* retribution of some sort applies if someone takes or destroys your stuff is a defining characteristic of "ownership".
- Dylan16807 3y agoInteresting that you cut the line there, because control over personal possessions usually goes under the "need" category. Anyway I'm still not sure what point you were originally trying to make, because defeating a landlord in court and getting paid back is at least as good of a proof of "ownership". Both situations have big flaws in the legal recourse, but you definitely have it in both situations. Though I prefer the one where I get compensation.