America’s incarceration rate is in decline • Hacker News Board

Re: America’s incarceration rate is in decline

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Post by leptons » Sat, Jun 28, 2025, 5:44 PM UTC

tclancy wrote: post #465

leptons wrote: post #56

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Availability of pornography has cut down the rate of rapes significantly. Too bad the republicans are going to try to ban all porn pretty soon, according to their stated agenda. They do love their wealthy donors that run the prison-industrial-complex.

>Availability of pornography has cut down the rate of rapes significantly. Oh for the love of $DEITY, this is some /r/shithackernewssays. Rape is not a crime about sex. Please don't do this.

In some cases it is, in some cases it isn't. I know this firsthand. In one case it was control, in the other it wasn't. You don't get to make blanket statements like that and be taken seriously.

Re: America’s incarceration rate is in decline

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Post by complianceowl » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 5:49 AM UTC

specialist wrote: post #525

complianceowl wrote: post #443

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I think willing to take a cut in one's standard of living so that the mother stays at home and raises the children would revitalize society beyond any of the above-mentioned options.

Or... Raise wages while reducing housing and insurance costs so that a single wage earner home can support their family. What my grandpa and grandma used to call "the middle class".

I agree with you. I don't have all the answers, but I agree with you. Things aren't the same. My political views have evolved so much over the span of 20-years. I don't know what the answer is, but at a spiritual level, you are completely right.

Re: America’s incarceration rate is in decline

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Post by worthless-trash » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 10:44 AM UTC

lazyasciiart wrote: post #574

worthless-trash wrote: post #559

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For those who are downvoting me, please explain why i'm being downvoted and how your logic translates specifically to the Queensland crime problem.

Queensland isn’t special dude. You are word for word having the exact same thoughts as I’ve heard in Melbourne, England and the USA.

But thank you for taking the time, I understand.

Re: America’s incarceration rate is in decline

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Post by jrflowers » Sun, Jun 29, 2025, 8:21 PM UTC

leptons wrote: post #564

jrflowers wrote: post #553

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>Nice try moving goalposts Uh, yep? I absolutely did that. Your goalposts were in a crazy place. If your goalposts are “rape has to be a special type of violent crime even though rapists frequently (kind of by definition) commit other violent crimes” then yes, I moved them to where pretty much everyone else has them: among other heinous, violent crimes that share the same downward trend over the same period of time.…

You've proven nothing here except that you are willing to move goalposts to try win pointless internet arguments. Congrats on that!

The rest of the world agrees that rape and other violent crime are related. You are the one person that has a special nook carved out about it to support your own personal pet theory. And that pet theory isn’t even supported by the data you provided because none of it says that rape and other violent crime are unrelated.

You just made that up

Re: America’s incarceration rate is in decline

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Post by marcus_holmes » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 12:38 AM UTC

pc86 wrote: post #561

marcus_holmes wrote: post #534

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No, it's used in the same way as elsewhere in the Anglosphere. And yes, as in the rest of the Anglosphere, generally you need an inheritance to be able to afford to buy property.

"in the high cost of living areas" is the rest of that sentence. It is perfectly doable, even common, to buy a home in low and medium COL areas without any assistance from family, living or dead. The fact that you can't do this in NYC or SF is not an indictment of anything other than NYC and SF.

And yeah, you can buy a house in the bush in Australia if you want.

But there aren't any jobs there, so you're going to need an inheritance to support your family of 5.

Re: America’s incarceration rate is in decline

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Post by leptons » Mon, Jun 30, 2025, 8:02 PM UTC

jrflowers wrote: post #584

leptons wrote: post #564

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You've proven nothing here except that you are willing to move goalposts to try win pointless internet arguments. Congrats on that!

The rest of the world agrees that rape and other violent crime are related. You are the one person that has a special nook carved out about it to support your own personal pet theory. And that pet theory isn’t even supported by the data you provided because none of it says that rape and other violent crime are unrelated. You just made that up

And here you are putting words in my mouth to try to win pointless internet arguments. You're the reason the internet sucks. I feel like I won't be responding to you in the future.