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>Selective enforcement of law based on moral preferences leads to bad places. Maybe go after wage theft and employment discrimination? It's strange to me that
by underlipton 2y ago
>Selective enforcement of law based on moral preferences leads to bad places.
Maybe go after wage theft and employment discrimination?
It's strange to me that people think that the source of "low trust" is the people with rather less power in society, versus the people with more. Most people begin life more than willing to trust. It's when someone who is supposed to be looking out for them betrays that trust that they become embittered.
- steveBK123 2y agoGo after those too, yes! That's the idea.
- monero-xmr 2y agoIt's strange that your immediate reaction to "I don't think some retail stores pay their employees enough" is to then decide "Everyone should be able to steal from those stores without penalty"
- dml2135 2y agoSeeking to explain why people steal from these stores is not the same as saying that everyone should be able to.
- underlipton 2y agoActually, my immediate reaction was to, "Selective enforcement of law based on moral preferences leads to bad places," where the implication was that petty theft is the most pressing matter wrt the deleterious social effects of lacking law enforcement. That reaction was, essentially, "That would be a mismanagement of resources." Which it is. Instances of wage theft dwarfs petty theft (and most other types of theft, combined). Employment discrimination - whether racial/ethnic, sexual, or nepotistic in nature - is a massive contributor to both the desperate financial situations and low trust environments that are a major part of why people are willing to steal. My goal is to actually solve the problem, not engage in Two Minutes Hate.