The govt’s job is not to prevent crime from happening, that’s dystopian-tier stuff. Their job is to determine what the law is, and apply consequences to people after they are caught breaking it.
The job of preventing crime from happening in the first place mainly belongs to lower-level community institutions, starting with parents and teachers.
Harm prevention is absolutely part of the government’s job. We just limit it to places where the obstacles are tolerable, relative to the problems they impede.
The issue here is that there’s no chance of impeding a damn thing. And if we’re honest the problem is a fancy version of taking scissors to a photograph and pasting it into a magazine. Reliable punishment after-the-fact is about all we can do.
The govt’s job is not to prevent crime from happening, that’s dystopian-tier stuff. Their job is to determine what the law is, and apply consequences to people after they are caught breaking it.
The job of preventing crime from happening in the first place mainly belongs to lower-level community institutions, starting with parents and teachers.
Harm prevention is absolutely part of the government’s job. We just limit it to places where the obstacles are tolerable, relative to the problems they impede.
The issue here is that there’s no chance of impeding a damn thing. And if we’re honest the problem is a fancy version of taking scissors to a photograph and pasting it into a magazine. Reliable punishment after-the-fact is about all we can do.