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FIFA95_itsinthegame t1_j64hxz7 wrote

Reply to comment by ballastboy1 in Carjacking at Union Station this Morning. Victims chased suspect to 7th and H NE and suspect bailed. by Swampoodle1984

Cash. With the only string attached being don’t commit violent crime. If the only consideration is preventing violent crime, then identifying those likely to commit the crime and paying them not to will always be the cheapest, most effective, and most humane way to prevent crime.

There might be good reasons for a government not to do that, but none of those reasons are related to crime prevention.

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IronKokomo t1_j650gws wrote

Does this not suffer from the “paying to kill pests” problem where people will start breeding pests/committing crime so they can be paid to stop?

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FIFA95_itsinthegame t1_j653clk wrote

Only in a society with very high levels of wealth inequality.

The risk of committing a violent crime or even a property crime isn’t what stops most people from commuting that crime. Rather it’s a lack of necessity and aversion to violence/immorality.

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