Crime: Why does anyone even bother?

[Chicken.Lytle]

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OOOOOOOOOOOO I KNOW I KNOW!!!!!
The chicken crossed the road to demonstrate proficiency standard 3.1 of the Barnyard Poultry Standards of Competence which requires all mobile egg laying fowl to achieve mastery of independent locomotion and orienteering in unfamiliar surroundings.

 

[HorseFeatherz NV]

I was sure the chicken was chasing a grasshopper across the road.

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OOOOOOOOOOOO I KNOW I KNOW!!!!!
The chicken crossed the road to demonstrate proficiency standard 3.1 of the Barnyard Poultry Standards of Competence which requires all mobile egg laying fowl to achieve mastery of independent locomotion and orienteering in unfamiliar surroundings.

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[gritsar]

I'll refer back to an incident that happened a few years ago.

DH initiated a traffic stop on a woman driver. Before he could even get completely out of his patrol car the woman started berating him, calling him every name in the book, sure she had done nothing to rate a traffic stop.
DH said not a word to the woman. Instead he simply reached up to the roof of her car and handed her back her purse that she had left up there.
He then told her to have a nice day and went back to his unit.

People hate cops because they can.

Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna go hug my chickens.

 

[elizabethbinary]

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The truck driver had his chance. He had the chance to make his living without drinking. That punk kid Simms had his chance too. The chance to go to prison, serve his time for the crimes he committed. He didn't have to get in a shootout with police because he didn't want to go back to prison.
It's real simple. Do the crime, do the time.
"As ye harm none, do as ye will". Don't harm anyone - by stealing from them, hurting them physically, or taking their rights away from them and you're good to go.

I don't recall saying I don't think they should go to prison. I agree with everything else you said though - I do believe you should not harm another person. But, where we seem to disagree is on what happens to a criminal after they become one.


Now for my cute funny story. A friend of mine was illegally crossing a very-normally-illegally-crossed road (illegal crossing is HUGE here. No joke, everyone does it - she was behind 30 other people who did it) and she got stopped by a cop who wanted to know, and very seriously,

"WHY WERE YOU CROSSING THE ROAD!?"

After a good 5 seconds of fidgeting and considering her options she replied, "To get to the other side!"

Said it was the best $30 ticket she ever got.

 

[PineappleMama]

Why bother?

Well, just look at who's in charge of the Treasury... with our so called justice system even an open and shut case leaves a criminal walking free.
And off chance they're found guilty we don't have the resources to do more than give them a slap on the wrist, at most, and then cut them loose.

 

[elizabethbinary]

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One of the reasons I'm so up about criminal rights is because I believe in fairness. One of the most horrific things happened to a friend of mine - she was assaulted, nearly killed, stabbed and robbed by knifepoint by 3 women with priors. They got off with a warning - all of them.

Another friend of mine just finished serving 3 months for driving... without a licence. Not even drink driving. (they also took away his licence for 3 years, gave him a year of parole and if he reoffends in those 3 years it's an automatic min. 6 month sentence... again.. for driving. Not even, y'know... badly.)

A lot of people IN prison are in there for absolutely horrid reasons. And a lot of people OUT of prison are out of it for the same horrid reasons!

 

[noodleroo]

Actually, crime does pay.

At least for those that get away with it and that is really a lot. I'm not talking about crimes of passion or cerial killers; I mean the grab and go, shoplifting, break into your house or car and steal stuff kind of crimes. Odds are, you won't get caught. It's not that law enforcement doesn't want to catch you...they just can't spend hours of time and money on lab analysis because you didn't lock your car at night and someone ripped off your car stereo...with no witnesses. I would love for the thief to be caught, but as a taxpayer; there is a limit of what I am willing to pay to catch every thief.

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

Yea it does pay an most people get away with it there first time. Its the doing it again an again an again that catches up with them.


Oh the family stories I cant tell....

 

[redhen]

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You are 100% right! Noone HAS to commit a crime to survive..period. Thats just a lame excuse for being a lazy scum bag...
I also DONT believe that prisioners should have all the luxeries thay have in prison either, they are treated WAY to good...... but thats another subject...

ETA: Just my opinion, of course..

 

[arabianequine]

If we all believed in fairness....every crime would be "an eye for an eye".

The meaning of the principle, Eye for an Eye is that a person who has injured another person returns the offending action to the originator in compensation. The exact Latin (lex talionis) to English translation of this phrase is actually "The law of retaliation." At the root of this principle is that one of the purposes of the law is to provide equitable retribution for an offended party.

The phrase, "an eye for an eye", (ayin tachat ayin, literally 'eye under eye'), is a quotation from several passages of the Hebrew Bible [1] [2] [3] in which a person who has injured the eye of another is instructed to give the value of his or her own eye in compensation. It defined and restricted the extent of retribution in the laws of the Torah.

The English word talion means a punishment identical to the offense, from the Latin talio. The principle of "an eye for an eye" is often referred to using the Latin phrase lex talionis, the law of talion.