I think the idea people are evil because they are poor and would be less evil with more money is pretty fucked up and I don't get why that is woke and I don't get why it's progressive to think money is magic
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Replying to @turrible_tao
I assume the logic is that people do things out of desperation rather than out of arbitrary malice, but taken too far that could definitely infantilize someone and/or reduce them to a stimulus-response skinner rat
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It's one thing if it's shoplifting but applied to violent theft idk man
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Replying to @turrible_tao
if I had to mug someone to feed my starving kid I would do it, but on the other hand plenty of crimes of pure rage and zero utility that people rationalize away for no good reason
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Replying to @interpretantion @turrible_tao
"if I had to mug someone to feed my starving kid I would do it" criminologists have noted that violent robberies typically aren't driven by 'necessity' as much as desire for status items muggers don't steal food, they steal phones, jewelry and not to flip them for cash
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Strikes me as obviously true but wondering if you have a source for that so I can refer to it in the future
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Not a single, handy one; its an observation made by criminologists like Barry Latzer, others, who talk about what distinguishes violent crime ('muggings' being violent theft) from broader property crime but you can see hints of same issue in broader crimepic.twitter.com/gFnGXmnzwx
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Thanks, I'll look into it.
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Latzer's book, "The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America", is worth reading https://www.amazon.com/Rise-Fall-Violent-Crime-America/dp/159403835X …
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