• AVincentInSpace@pawb.social
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      1 month ago

      …so, what, we’re supposed to build an entire society on people’s inherent willingness to help each other and just trust that crime will stop happening?

      Like mate, I hate to break it to you, but psychopaths exist. The entire problem with capitalism is that some people are never satisfied no matter how much they have and will do anything they possibly can to hoard anything that could give them an advantage at the expense of the group.

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        Its true, the things that stop crime can only ever be made by a state.

        In fact, people never managed to stop or punish theft or a murder until we invesnted states.

        Yup, before states, if someone came a murdered your friend you had to trust that what you just witnessed didn’t happen because there was literally nothing you could do about it, as states hadn’t been invented yet.

        Its good thing were too smart to fall for that…

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          …and your proposed alternative is…?

          I really, really hope I don’t have to explain why vigilante justice is a bad idea.

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            I heard him say he murdered his friend.

            Pity there is no third party to investigate my claim. We’ll just have to string him up ourselves.

            I call dibs on his shoes.

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              30 days ago

              Well, in a society without judges, as the article linked proposes, I’m having a hard time seeing it any other way.

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            Lol nice try but I don’t have to provide you with an alternative for you to attack. You’re wasting youre time there.

            The point is, even all those hundreds of years ago, we had an alternative to just trusting that crime wouldn’t exist, as you suggested was the only alternative.

            Other than its state-ness exaplin the difference between state vigilante justice and the exact equivalent done by any other kind of group.

            I really, really hope I don’t have to explain why it being done by a state doesn’t magically make it better, in of itself.

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              Lol nice try but I don’t have to provide you with an alternative for you to attack. You’re wasting youre time there.

              “See, the thing is, I already know I’m right, so I’m not going to waste time by giving you arguments to find flaws in.”

              I really, really hope I don’t have to explain why it being done by a state doesn’t magically make it better, in of itself.

              …you mean why a system of justice that is held liable to a court system is not superior to a system of justice where people can just go after whomever they want? yeah, you do have to explain that actually

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                See, the thing is, I already know I’m right, so I’m not going to waste time by giving you arguments to find flaws in.”

                Again, nice try but I’m used to people as slippery as you. What you mean is “you’re right, we don’t just have to sit around and trust that crime doesn’t exist. However, I’m the kind of person who really struggles to back down or walk back even the most wild and silly of things that I imply.”

                you mean why a system of justice that is held liable to a court system is not superior to a system of justice where people can just go after whomever they want? yeah, you do have to explain that actually

                Why would I explain something completely different to what I said to you?

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                  Okay, so if we’re not just going to trust that crime isn’t going to happen, how are we going to prevent it? I asked you that, straight up, and you said “I’m not going to give you something just for you to poke holes in it. I’ve dealt with your kind before.”

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                    So, are you saying we do or we don’t all have to just sit around and trust crime wouldn’t exist? Sorry, I couldn’t tell which one it was you were saying from that answer.