Comment by direwolf20
10 hours ago
Labeling people as villains used to be effective deterrence against doing villainous things. When did that change?
10 hours ago
Labeling people as villains used to be effective deterrence against doing villainous things. When did that change?
When we began blaming society instead.
I've read multiple times that a large percentage of the crime comes from a small group of people. Jail them, and the overall crime rate drops by that percentage.
Which group is that?
The group of people who have long arrest records.
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Criminals? I'm not sure what you're looking for.
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It's also pretty clearly a deterrence against people admitting and fixing their own mistakes, both individually and as institutions. Which is exactly what we're seeing here...
You wouldn't be a villain from doing one bad thing, but a pattern.
Correlation is not causation.
Was it ever, though? This is an easy thing to say, but how would we demonstrate that it worked?
Ah yes, the mythical past when nobody did bad things because we punished them correctly.
The crime rate does change dramatically over time. For example, the homicide rate during the pandemic was about double what it is today.
Sure, but are you implying that is because of our stricter enforcement of the laws? Or other systemic / environmental causes (eg systemic poor mental health)?
I am unfamiliar with the reasons to which the varying murder rate is ascribed. If I had to guess, I would guess economics is #1.