D.C.-area startup wants to solve the public bathroom problem

Post by eurasiantiger » Tue, Aug 30, 2022, 9:38 PM UTC

xyzzyz wrote: post #239

eurasiantiger wrote: post #220

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No. They would just go elsewhere to commit offenses. Retributive justice is not really effective when the offender’s world view internally justifies their actions. It’s a common theme that criminals are victims of circumstance to such a degree that the enforcing entity is seen as another arm of the system that caused their criminal behavior in the first place. Imagine being in a car crash, having difficult pains, get…

> No. They would just go elsewhere to commit offenses. This is just denying the offenders all agency. If they literally cannot help but commit crime, the response from the society should then be to lock them up, as unfit to live in the society. I do not in fact believe that to be the case. Criminals have agency, and, as can be readily observed, respond to incentives too.

Post by deltasevennine » Thu, Sep 01, 2022, 3:59 AM UTC

tjs8rj wrote: post #233

wildrhythms wrote: post #219

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Why have you chosen to inject 'multiculturalism' into a topic about conceptually 'winning' in society? Do you think maybe there is a common economic system underlying everything that enables the concept 'winning'?

The economic system as the root doesn’t make sense. Why is the decay so sudden despite capitalism dominating western markets for nearly half a thousand years? Why are there so many capitalist economies like Japan or Norway without these issues (almost at all)? Those 2 cannot be true if the blame is on capitalism.