Only a f****** moron we try to justify a man killing a 17 year old over a f****** beer.
And would you still stand by this if it could be PROVEN statistically that a large number (if not majority) of people who steal a beer go on later to commit rape or murder or become drug dealers resulting in many deaths?
if so, why would you protect rapists and murderers?
Petty theft and violent behavior have no correlation, I'll betcha.
Well it's been some years since I read the reports on this... but last I read, nearly all violent criminals started off as petty thieves.
By the way.... fun fact... one of the two founding members of the terrorist group that later formed ISIS.... was in fact originally a petty thief.
Anyway, the reason you don't understand this is because of why people do stuff. Most criminals are not criminals because they really need a drink, and are just too poor to pay for it.
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People commit crimes, because they want a sense of power, and because they love the adrenaline rush. It's that excitement of "what can I get away with?" What rules you can break, and escape.
And the exact same system that drives a person to do more and more drugs to get the same high, drives a criminal to do ever greater and greater crimes to get the same sense of power, or adrenaline rush. After you shoplifted the same bag of candy 20 times, there is no excitement in it. So they have to do something more edgy.
So yes, I do believe, and last I read there was, a causal link between petty theft, and violent crime.
You are partially correct, but not every individual who shoplifted candy as a kid turns into a violent criminal, and I hesitate to believe anywhere near half of them do.
The adrenaline rush theory is spot on. That is a major factor.
No, that's true. People that get caught, tend to jump off the track. When I was boy, I shoplifted from a computer store. My father discovered it, dragged my butt to the store, had me stand before the manager of the entire store, in the middle of the shopping floor, and in a public voice "My son stole this from your store. Do you want to call the police? I'll follow whatever punishment you want on my son".
I was TERRIFIED. Funny thing.... never felt like picking up anything I had not paid for after that. Strange how that worked.
When you discipline and teach your kids moral values, they tend to jump off that track real fast.
Had a guy I knew in high school, running with a bad crowd. Did a bunch of petty things, vandalism and such. Glued the locks on a bunch of doors. Neighbors caught them, had the police round up the entire gang, had them spend the night at Juevi. The entire gang disbanded, never got into trouble again. That guy never hung around those people for the rest of high school.
But if you follow their exploits, they were progressively doing worse and worse things. The reason they never did anything worse than gluing locks, is because they got caught. And the reason I believe they got caught is because they lived in a middle class neighborhood, where police still show up for petty things, and that's because the residence there don't put up with petty things.
Too often in bad neighborhoods, the problem is more of the residents than the police. The people simply don't report stuff. They think it's normal for kids to break laws, and crime is common. Thus the police don't bother with it either. And so they stay on the criminal path until they are doing crazy stuff.
Years ago there was a new program, I think 60 minutes, where they were telling the story of this girl that ended up in prison for armed robbery. And she said openly when she got into trouble, her mom would come to the school and talk them out of expelling her. And she did some vandalism with a bunch of buddies, and the mom talked to judge and got her off. So her and her criminal buddies, just kept doing worse and worse things, until they committed armed robbery. Her Mom came in, talked to judge, and the judge said enough of this, look at her record. This poor girl said the first time she ever felt scared was seeing her mom turn, and walk out of the court room, and she was now 'alone' with the judge.
And off to Prison she went.
If you discipline children, they will not follow the criminal path. So yes, every person who steals does not end up a violent criminal, if you catch them, discipline them, and get them off the criminal path. That's why I'm a huge proponent of drastically increasing law enforcement.