(August 24, 2020 at 8:33 pm)Eleven Wrote: On a friend's timeline, people are starting to get it:
I mostly agree with this meme but like most memes it simplifies a complicated reality. The idea that if there was enough opportunity that everyone would just peace, love, dope their way through life totally misses the point that even when Maslow's hierarchy is satisfied people are weird as fuck and some of us will STILL find a way to fuck things up so bad that we need people with guns to intervene.
Certainly the best way to decrease crime would be to level the playing field to provide for what people need, but many people, like me for example, are deterred by law and the idea that if they did what they wanted they would be subdued by cops and so they avoid breaking laws.
Think about it... the biggest deterrent for murder is that it is illegal.
If murder was legal...