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    7 months ago

    A very real risk of punishment by the state if you happen to get caught is what prevents theft. Your argument conveniently left that important part out and presented a straw man argument.

    The rest of these comments talk about unenforced theft like white collar crimes and other class war-like theft. Which just reinforces the idea that only state-executed enforcement of law is actually any good at preventing theft.

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        67 months ago

        Do you think the homeless and hungry are the only people who steal?

        High end crime happens ALL the time, and it’s not out of necessity, it’s out of the human condition of greed. Theft happens more often by rich individuals than it does by poor.

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          47 months ago

          It’s a good thing the state takes that “high end” crime as seriously as smoking weed.

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      27 months ago

      mob justice did that before states existed or even humans. Now the state protects one class and loots the other. And guess what? thieves fear a mob more than the state. Things change, bad people find loopholes. How laws work needs to keep changing

      Your first argument works in a perfect state, which will never exist. Your second paragraph makes no fucking sense.