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Instead of constructing all those "traps" recently shown on the internet, wouldn't it be more efficient just to build a deposit box for the packages, which, like a letter box can recieve parcels, but not take from?
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In this particular case the cops refused to act. And your solution somehow forces the criminals to feel empathy. Not everyone can feel empathy, notably sociopaths. And trying to rationalize with a sociopath about why he should feel empathy, seem problematic from the start. And that girl that stole the package off his porch is more likely to be a sociopath than the average citizen. In states like Texas, it is legal to…
I was born and raised in Texas, I still live in DFW, and I'm aware of the law here. I'm also aware of sociopaths and their symptoms, but I see no correlation between them and thieves. Googling revealed no studies or data on the topic. But I'd argue that most thieves are like most normal human beings, and that their theft happens towards the few people they don't have empathy towards . Just because you don't have empa…
Ergo, there must be no articles on the subject, right?
I would probably start with this one.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=sociopaths+and+crime+st...
It's not that I don't have empathy for a demographic (sociopaths/psycopaths), it's just they are incapable of feeling empathy, so showing them some will not be an effective deterrent.
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I was born and raised in Texas, I still live in DFW, and I'm aware of the law here. I'm also aware of sociopaths and their symptoms, but I see no correlation between them and thieves. Googling revealed no studies or data on the topic. But I'd argue that most thieves are like most normal human beings, and that their theft happens towards the few people they don't have empathy towards . Just because you don't have empa…
> Googling revealed no studies or data on the topic. Ergo, there must be no articles on the subject, right? I would probably start with this one. https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=sociopaths+and+crime+st... It's not that I don't have empathy for a demographic (sociopaths/psycopaths), it's just they are incapable of feeling empathy, so showing them some will not be an effective deterrent.
> Ergo, there must be no articles on the subject, right?
Not at all what I said. In fact, my very next sentence was clearly making a guess, and it was just the opposite of your guess (without evidence, all we can do is guess).
> I would probably start with this one. [link]
That link is to a list of studies, not a single study. Also, they are studies of "crime", which includes things like "arsony" and "homicide", not just "package theft"
Those studies are useless to figure out how likely it is for package thieves to be sociopaths. A study on thieves specifically would be better, but if it made no distinction between violent and non-violent thieves it would also be pretty useless. Package thieves are being very non-violent by stealing packages on porches (hoping to not run into anyone) rather than violent thieves that may walk into homes and rob/kill people.
> It's not that I don't have empathy for a demographic
I didn't say you did, and I'm sorry if you thought I was implying that. I never meant to discuss your empathy. In fact, if you read my comment again, you may notice I'm actually talking about thieves lacking empathy for demographics, and I'm calling that prejudice (not sociopathy/psychopathy).
Unless you have a (good, not shitty) study that demonstrates a clear correlation between package thieves (or non-violent thieves in general) and significantly higher chances of them being sociopaths/psychopaths than normal people, your argument is based on conjecture that such a thing is true. By contrast, my argument relies on package thieves having similar chances of sociopaths/psychopaths to people who society doesn't deem as "theieves" - even if package thieves are a little bit more prone to being sociopaths/psychopaths that most people, my argument still holds because wouldn't be so many sociopathic/psychopathic package thieves that helping some would be a bad idea. You'd need there to be a small percentage of non-sociopathic/psychopathic package thieves to show that there is no point in trying to use empathy with most package thieves