hmmm i wonder about this hard to disentangle these things empiricallyhttps://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1447602437938876417 …
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I don't think it's true. People used to go to jail for shoplifting, and now they don't; ergo, now people just kinda walk in with a big bag and leave with whatever they want.
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Replying to @Midnight_Blaze_
well right but there's some issue of the direction of causality
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Replying to @eigenrobot
I guess I could believe that the alternative is that enough people are breaking the law that we just stopped enforcing it?
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Replying to @Midnight_Blaze_
basically there's a point where enough people are breaking a law that enforcement becomes very difficult, the odds of you specifically getting arrested drop with the number of simultaneous lawbreakers like if you start breaking windows alone you're going to jail. but in a mob?
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Midnight_Blaze_
we have very few police per capita, mostly laws work because almost everyone follows almost every law voluntarily all the time if there were even like 1% of the population breaking on law all of the time the law may as well not exist
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Replying to @eigenrobot @Midnight_Blaze_
you can sort of get around this by changing enforcement. eg shoot someone on sight if they seem to be breaking the law. this tends to restore order quickly but has the downside of undermining the notion of "law" generally
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See Law's Order by David Friedman
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I got tackled running away from a safeway woth stolen liquer back in the day
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