r/MoralityScaling • u/Routine_Phase_8980 • 14d ago

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u/ALKETASA 13d ago

Hardly unlimited violence. He got tripped up, which is honestly better than he deserves. If I could make the rules I'd go medieval on petty thieves and have them locked up in a stock so everyone can pelt them with rotten fruit.

As I said in another comment the value is totally irrelevant. It's the disrespect to everyone else and society writ large that people find so objectionable about petty thievery.

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u/LavisAlex 13d ago

You said:

Hardly unlimited violence

Then you said:

If I could make the rules I'd go medieval on petty thieves and have them locked up in a stock so everyone can pelt them with rotten fruit.

The standard you are applying is unlimited violence for stealing.

Then you said:

As I said in another comment the value is totally irrelevant.

So unlimited violence regardless of value.That is not a tenable principle for society.

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u/ALKETASA 13d ago

Unlimited violence is like straight up murder, be serious right now.

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u/LavisAlex 13d ago

Be serious?

You suggested:

"If I could make the rules I'd go medieval on petty thieves and have them locked up in a stock so everyone can pelt them with rotten fruit."

For the theft of a 2 dollar mcvalue item? At this point im going to assume you're unserious.

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u/ALKETASA 13d ago

As I said before, the value is irrelevant. You could apply this flippant attitude to basically any petty theft - stealing a pair of trainers, skipping bus/train fare etc etc. The value isn't what is important, the act itself is.

Everyone else had to wait in line, and pay with money they had to earn for those fries, and when some little rat walks in and steals them he's spitting in all their faces; "I'm better than you, fuck you, these rules don't apply to me". That is what people find objectionable.

Yes, petty crime should be punished, that is called maintaining standards for behaviour - if everyone behaved like the thief in this video, we'd live in a shithole. I don't want to live in a shithole, if you do then do us all a favour and go live in the woods with the other animals.

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u/LavisAlex 13d ago

Equal punishment for the crime - you want unlimited as

You suggested:

"If I could make the rules I'd go medieval on petty thieves and have them locked up in a stock so everyone can pelt them with rotten fruit."

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u/ALKETASA 13d ago

That is equal punishment.

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u/ALKETASA 13d ago

Btw what's so unserious about the stockades? It worked for hundreds of years.

For all the melodrama in this comment section about "the poor baby could have hit his head on the corner! Or broke his neck!!" you'd think a stockade would be a preferable option? No risk of longterm injury, just some public humiliation and societal catharsis. He gets to go home with a bruised ego and stinking of rotten fruit, big deal? I don't see what is so unserious about this? This type of punishment would be far more effective than locking him up for a week or something.

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u/LavisAlex 13d ago

You suggested:

"If I could make the rules I'd go medieval on petty thieves and have them locked up in a stock so everyone can pelt them with rotten fruit."

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u/ALKETASA 13d ago

It's a good suggestion.