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    The principal is you beat people as retribution? Maybe you should look why that’s your reaction. Hell, even if it isn’t your fear of losing money that’s still a wild thing to do.

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      1 year ago

      It keeps pickpockets and thieves at a very low level. Between the risk of jail and getting your ass beaten or shot the US doesn’t have the issue Europe does with petty in person crimes.

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        Ya, the US just has such rampant poverty that crime rates are still through the roof, it’s just far more targeted.

        It still seems very weird to me that ya’ll hate crime so damn much but won’t do the one thing that will really help bring it down, which is to just use the vast wealth of the country(but not its people oh boy) to actually help people. The US sure has a punishment fetish though*.

        *I don’t think zero punishment would be a solution either but ya’ll take it somewhere awful.

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            They really aren’t. Poverty and crime are intrinsically linked and there’s no getting around it.