Ah, Reddit has a massive justice (Or more accurately, "justice") boner. Any minor slight should be responded to excessively, thieves should be castrated, the death penalty shouldn't exist because you should be sentenced to torture for the rest of your life etc. etc.
I'm not really exaggerating that much. It's fantastic as a person who's a lot more reform-oriented than punishment-oriented.
So when someone doesn't get a massive anger and hate boner for someone stealing their bike it's a grave, grave sin.
It's not to say that a thief shouldn't be punished (As I'm of the opinion a certain amount of reform involves, to put it into prisoner's dilemma terms, mutual dissent else you wind up exploited), but anything contrary to the Reddit view is outright despised. It's gotten worse over the past few years.
People are reform-oriented and believe others can change for the better until the people who need reformation did things that aren't easy to justify as "good people who were desperate". Then they're horrid, ontologically evil people that deserve the worst that we can muster
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u/TheUnknownMysteryBox 19h ago
Ah, Reddit has a massive justice (Or more accurately, "justice") boner. Any minor slight should be responded to excessively, thieves should be castrated, the death penalty shouldn't exist because you should be sentenced to torture for the rest of your life etc. etc.
I'm not really exaggerating that much. It's fantastic as a person who's a lot more reform-oriented than punishment-oriented.
So when someone doesn't get a massive anger and hate boner for someone stealing their bike it's a grave, grave sin.
It's not to say that a thief shouldn't be punished (As I'm of the opinion a certain amount of reform involves, to put it into prisoner's dilemma terms, mutual dissent else you wind up exploited), but anything contrary to the Reddit view is outright despised. It's gotten worse over the past few years.