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They make a small story about bike theft into a national story about racism. Turns out the bikes were stolen (archive.ph)
posted 3 years ago by Mpetey123 3 years ago by Mpetey123 +61 / -0
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– TriangleGang 21 points 3 years ago +21 / -0

If you steal, your life should be forfeit. Maybe we'd have less crime if these assholes knew that there would be no consequences if their victims simply killed them.

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– Guy_Incognito76 31 points 3 years ago +31 / -0

We used to hang people for stealing a horse. Anything less than that was a whipping.

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– CarmenOfSandiego 8 points 3 years ago +8 / -0

Horses are significantly more valuable being a work animals so that makes sense since historic damages from loss of a horse would be severe to potentially lethal for some. While bikes can be important for couriers a rider can only carry so much before starting to impede their own ability to travel. Meanwhile with the right kind of horse could pull a cart with magnitudes more weight in goods, sometimes things which were the sole livelihood of a farmer, across ground that bikes can't really travel well.

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– TriangleGang 23 points 3 years ago +23 / -0

You forgot the /s.

My favorite videos are from a year or two ago with a black chick screaming that while vandalizing some business. If these people don't fear consequences, then they won't be dissuaded from their crime. It's clear the police are not a deterent, maybe declaring open season on them would be.

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– lapalapa 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

A working justice system evolves to mitigate the death and horror that happens without it through revenge. You can't kill people over simple offenses: it's disproportionate in the same way revenge is.

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– TriangleGang 28 points 3 years ago +28 / -0

We don't have a working justice system. This guy saw a crime, used the appropriate level of force to detain the criminals until the cops arrived, and then a bystander compelled him to release the criminals before the cops got there and now he's the one facing charges.

The only reason the bikes went back to their owner was because the criminal's mom turned them in.

The social contract works both ways. You cede the freedom to make your own justice to the state in return for the state's promise to handle it. The state isn't keeping up it's end of the bargain.

And let's not even get into the fact that the cops have carte blanche to blow you away if you don't do exactly what they say (or sometimes when you do!) no matter what crime, if any, prompted their interaction with you. Don't preach to me about proportionality.

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– realerfunction 12 points 3 years ago +12 / -0

my cat's used litter is worth more than any thief breaking into my home.

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– Kaarous 9 points 3 years ago +9 / -0

Property and safety are far more valuable than the lives and wellbeing of willful criminals.

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– covok48 5 points 3 years ago +5 / -0

[Whites] are more important than things.

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