Time for the latest of cope. I talk to too many people who want 'law and order' and less criminality. They aren't willing to subscribe to harsh window theory with punishing harshly low level crimes and the death penalty for high level crimes. IE: Cutting hands off or Singapore caning for petty theft, nor the death penalty for violent offenders.
Deadass these people are morons. You need to be harsh bottom to top. Store raids would stop near overnight if people seriously risked losing hands.
@FinalDresdonation Those that have lived in relative safety often fail to understand all the stepping stones necessary to get to that level of safety in the first place. It does not come easy. Consider many European countries. They were constantly warring with each other and certainly had harsher punishments for criminals. This foundation was indeed necessary to get to the point of "safety."
And now we are seeing the results of people thinking we can just abandon those aspects.
@FinalDresdonation It is easy to be careless when you are not tested. You can have lax punishment when there is little crime to worry about. But what happens when those who are more prone to criminality come more common in society? The same lax punishments will not suffice. Especially not when you naively assume that everyone is just as peaceful as yourself and those who became criminals only did so because of some sort of oppression. Sometimes, people commit crimes because they can.