Comment by RcouF1uZ4gsC
4 days ago
> But what if someone steals your Amazon package off your front steps? Well, what if they do? I guess you would have to get a refund. I guess you might suffer an extremely minor inconvenience. I guess it could be an opportunity to reflect on the painful predations of poverty under capitalism, which creates economic desires, renders people unable to satisfy them, and then taunts them with constant visions of abundance in which they cannot share. True, it is a tragedy of unimaginably small proportions that someone has stolen your box of paper towels. Would you let them steal your optimism, as well?
This kind of rhetoric is counterproductive. Telling people that package thieves are just misunderstood, is going to get people to do the opposite of what you suggest.
Those people were going to do the opposite already. They are already doing the opposite. If you have some better rhetoric that will convince them otherwise then in all honesty I look forward to reading your blog post.
I believe the rhetoric is intentional; that the author had no plan to convert that audience from whom you will pry their ring doorbell out of their cold, dead hands.
What is the audience it is for?
Fringe leftists who got one of these without thinking, I guess.
Does the thesis that people get these out of paranoia have any basis? I use mine for basic convenience, like seeing that a package was delivered, or seeing that the person at the door is a solicitor so I don't have to walk downstairs and shoo him away. Crime is not even on my mind with this thing and I point it so it can only see my stoop, not the street. Maybe I'm the weird one?