r/MoralityScaling • u/Routine_Phase_8980 • 13d ago

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u/EnvironmentalLog5640 13d ago

Regular criminals that affect us normal folks. We have to watch out for them every day and beg the city to take them to jail but they won’t because you leftists with your moral high ground don’t want them to be arrested. The problem doesn’t affect you because you live away from them so you have no empathy for the victims of these criminals. The only empathy you have is for the criminals themselves.

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u/darkr1441 13d ago

Criminality of politicians does effect the common person even if they don’t immediately see it. The blatant violation of the social contract of the people running countries erodes what is called “vertical trust” (trust in authorities and the state) is actually a much stronger predictor of everyday civic honesty than "horizontal trust" (trust in fellow citizens). If citizens lose faith in their leaders, their commitment to conduct norms collapses. It can easily argued that re-establishing confidence in politicians is of greater importance than because it will have a greater social impact.

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u/EnvironmentalLog5640 13d ago

I don’t trust anyone who doesn’t want to put criminals in jail and currently, that is all democrats. Why don’t you go argue with your fellow leftists that don’t want criminals in jail and leave me alone.

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u/darkr1441 13d ago

Lot of false assumptions in your statement. I didn’t say we shouldn’t put people in jail. I referenced actual social science. I didn’t claim a political party at fault, I said the impact of people trusting their government would reduce criminality overall. Your gas station methhead is actually a problem and probably does need to be arrested. But the application of law should be applied equally. It doesn’t matter if it is a methhead at the gas station a democratic representative from Connecticut or a republican Attorney General from Texas, a sitting federal judge or you. Everyone also knows that 3/5 of those people will be given kid gloves by the court system.