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IshKebab • yesterday at 10:09 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Criminals have some brains. What do you think they'll do when they figure out that crimes under $1k go unpunished?

Look what happened with shoplifters.


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apsurd • yesterday at 10:18 PM

Doesn’t that prove actually that the act of theft is not some calculated needs based negotiation in need of “the right threshold” to deter crime?

Like fare hopping, first half of my life i thought how unfair that i have to drone away as a tool of society and pay like a shmuck meanwhile these freeloaders have happily escaped the matrix.

second half of life i realized being unwilling or unable to pay $2.50 for public transist is an issue between that person and their life situation. If that’s what they need, I support the subsidy.

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liveoneggs • yesterday at 11:45 PM

yeah we have extremely recent examples of this philosophy playing out and people are here defending it. It's bonkers!