• oatscoop
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    7 months ago

    So what are we going to do with actual terrible people? Murders, rapists, etc?

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      7 months ago

      find and address the problems that cause people to behave that way, to prevent it from happening in the first place.

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        7 months ago

        We absolutely can greatly reduce crime by doing that and should – but that’s not going to completely eliminate those crimes.

        People are going to slip through the cracks, and sociopaths are still going to exist.

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        7 months ago

        Yeah that’s nice and feel good but you can’t deny that there are people who behave badly because they’re just rotten people.

        Domestic abusers are a key example, people go through the same supposed stressors that DV perps go through without belt whipping their kid for not being man enough at the age of 5.