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The problem is, we don't.
We lock up the kid who shoplifts from Tube Socks, but the CEO who loots his company and demands a bailout gets off scott free.
That's all manner of fucked up.
When people get away with theft, it teaches them that theft is ok, its it escalates and gets worse.
That pair of tube socks today, is somebody's bicycle tomorrow, is a Cadillac escalade next year, is pick pocketing and armed robbery after that, is burglary and home invasion after that... is somebody's life after that.
And you can ask any criminal in prison who is willing to admit it... that's basically the evolution of their crimes.
And shoplifting hurts people's businesses, just like stealing personal property damages people's standard of living.
And it doesn't matter who you steal from... it isn't yours to have, and the kid has a whole lot to learn.
In Demark they have bike rental dispensers without a human eye watching the bikes...
In the USA we can't have that....
Because the city would be just providing free bikes and never see them again.
We lock up the kid who shoplifts from Tube Socks, but the CEO who loots his company and demands a bailout gets off scott free.
That's all manner of fucked up.
When people get away with theft, it teaches them that theft is ok, its it escalates and gets worse.
That pair of tube socks today, is somebody's bicycle tomorrow, is a Cadillac escalade next year, is pick pocketing and armed robbery after that, is burglary and home invasion after that... is somebody's life after that.
And you can ask any criminal in prison who is willing to admit it... that's basically the evolution of their crimes.
And shoplifting hurts people's businesses, just like stealing personal property damages people's standard of living.
And it doesn't matter who you steal from... it isn't yours to have, and the kid has a whole lot to learn.
In Demark they have bike rental dispensers without a human eye watching the bikes...
In the USA we can't have that....
Because the city would be just providing free bikes and never see them again.
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