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If someone needs to steal food and sleep under a bridge I think we can do better than convicting them.

• AnthonyMouse 2y ago
  That's a proposal not to change the policy that theft is uniformly illegal.
• inglor_cz 2y ago
  Yeah, but people who shoplift expensive non-edible items don't neatly fall into the "poor paupers" category. I would even call them predators preying on small shops and their owners. At the end of the day, most theft in the developed world is not motivated by mere poverty, but harder-to-address things like having a drug habit. I don't really see the case for decriminalization of theft in general. I do see a case for financing research into drug dependence and treatment thereof - the current (unexpected) results around GLP-1 agonists seem to indicate that there is a pharmacologic way to treat addiction. But that is somewhat orthogonal to the original criminal law problem.