crime is a spook
(midwest.social)
lumpenproletariat
FlippanarchyCriminal law is basically self interest fully encoded. "Well I don't want bad things to happen to me, so lets codify them all and make it illegal to do any of them."
That's the point of government: the state has a monopoly on the legitimate use of physical force.
That's from "Politics as a Vocation" by Max Weber. It's also why the population needs to beat back if that violence isn't legitimate (i.e. it's abusing the population in the first place).
Or dissolve the government and realise offloading societal obligations to use violence to a hierarchical organisation is not the solution.
If there must be violence, let it come from the people for the people.
Government is like money. Get rid of it and people will create it again to fill the function they need it to fill, so let's have it do what we need and help instead of harm
you're making that up
No, they aren't. Humans have been using currency for thousands of years because it's just assigning a value to labor.
While a currency free system is possible on a very small scale, it's not something that can reasonably scale.
Which is the main problem with anarchy. You have to have a centralized government with a vertical hierarchy when you're dealing with massive populations because there are too many moving parts for millions of small groups to effectively self advocate.
Not to mention that achieving anarchy would require total world domination through a robust centralized power structure and lots and lots of killing.
if you're going to just make things up, you should start off by letting everyone know so tehy don't waste their time on your storytelling.
your gif broke. but i foundi t, and it's just an appeal to ridicule, not evidence for your claim.
i thought you were making a joke (one i liked, too) that i said people create things. no worries, it's hard to communicate tone over text.
straight up mott and bailey. retreat from your specific, unjustified claim to one very broad and easy to defend.
And other shit liberals tell themselves to never attempt change.
call me when you've built a single homeless shelter. just one. then you can lecture me on anything.
you just sit behind your keyboard. Some of us (not you) actually live it.
Vigilantism is not a suitable replacement. The general population is shit at properly investigating things.
Just look at how Reddit responded to who they incorrectly thought was the Boston Marathon bomber. A lot of innocent people will die to mob justice.
and innocent people die at the hands of police. i'm willing to take my chances with my neighbors.
I can guarantee you that mob justice would be worse.
It used to be commonplace for innocent black people to be hung because they were in the wrong place at the wrong time and a bunch of pissed off white people wanted to kill someone.
The state making that a crime and enforcing it is what stopped it from being commonplace.
I can guarantee you that mob justice would be worse.
i don't see how. do you have a crystal ball?
No crystal ball, but history repeats itself. That shit isn't even in the distant past.
Do you honestly think that groups of people with no experience in criminal investigations will get it right more often than people who dedicated their lives to it?
Community defences is a suitable replacement.
I can point to millions of examples of cops and courts getting it wrong and innocent people suffering and dying, yet that’s not an argument against the system for you so why should it be against community management?
I'm not disagreeing with any argument against the current system, I'm just saying that putting the power in the hands of the people isn't a suitable replacement.
Professional, highly educated and properly trained law enforcement with robust civilian oversight is the solution.
The news media is pushing the narrative that it was a fake school. Fake art supplies etc. Its REALLY fucking evil. Of course everyone will believe that now.
Who cares about the school. Were the children also fake?
Oh, children don't look like children on camera you have to paint capybaras.
what is this in reference to?
US tomahawking 200 kids at girl school in Iran recently.
didn't they also double tap to kill the responders and survivors
I just assume the evil sumbitches are doing that on all the bombings now
Only to people who believe the media, who are already quite lost.
It's easy to get away with crime, though.
Step 1: have parents who are billionaires
Step two, pick victims who are socially disadvantaged
Similarly, a politician can abuse kids with impunity, but you can go to prison for seeing pictures of him doing it (or of others doing the same).
I’m not saying that possession of CSAM shouldn’t be illegal, but if we’re not prosecuting the crimes they depict, then is what they depict the crime or is it the knowledge it’s happening and who’s doing it?
You just need to familiarize yourself with the concept of blackwhite. Do you know much newspeak?
Of course, morality itself is a social construct, no? Even the foundation itself is shaky.
Morality is not a social construct, it’s part and parcel of the social contract.
And the social contract is some divine thing, or what?
Depends? Morality like "don't steal" is partially a consequence of game theory. Game theory is math.
Is math a social construct - obviously not completely.
The biggest fault of Game theory is that it is biased towards instant utility and short-term rewards. It does not model for scenarios where reduced short-term rewards can lead to greater gains in the long-term.
In short, decisions made for singular benefit typically have worse long-term results than decisions accounting for collective benefit.
That's a failure of that specific model. It just needs more creative mathematicians/theorists
Game theory does model for that. For example an iterated prisoner's dilemma.
