Sqrl on 02 October 2009
| Rath said: The debate doesn't only concern the amount of crime though, it also concerns the outcome of that crime. I'd rather have ten robberies where nobody dies than one where somebody does. |
I'd rather have ten dead robbers. That is ten less people who get robbed next week...and the week after...and if we're lucky maybe another 3 or 4 rethink their profression and we can reduce the total by 13 or 14.
Robbers implicitly threaten a person's safety in order to take their possessions for profit. Your position, while motivated by a well-intended desire to save lives, makes their job easier and reinforces the problem.
I would much rather have ten dead criminals and a strong negative reinforcement mechanism than ten criminals who happily profited from their easy marks and a strong positive reinforcement mechanism.
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