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[quote user="Andrew Cain"] So under what rights violation do you bring these 'implicit murderer helpers' to jail? Failure to prevent murder? [/quote] Some sort of negligence. But I dont believe anyone will take that risk. Capital Punishment (my position) or real, actual life imprisonment (Stranger's position, though I doubt this
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[quote user="nirgrahamUK"] if i am known to look out for my property, and that of the neighbourhood and my neighbours enjoy the 'spillover benefit' of my having so acted, and i have received reciprocal benefits in kind wherever my neighbours have so acted, still liability for the murders of others has not come into it. [/quote] You're
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[quote user="nirgrahamUK"] really? Here is a 2 sentence play "hey buddy, quit vandalising my property and get on out of here " "shit, ok, i'll go to the next house over, sucks for you cause now you are liable..." [/quote] Except that theft would likely be either simply a financial or corporal crime, not capital.
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[quote user="Jackson LaRose"] [quote user="sicsempertyrannis"]the most likely outcome seems to be capital punishment. [/quote] Or banishment from the village. [/quote] Sure, you'd just have to be willing to accept the liability for the damage the murderer does in the next town he goes to.
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[quote user="Stranger"] [quote user="sicsempertyrannis"] Can you really imagine a PDA bearing the burden of supporting Charles Manson from his middle aged years to his golden years, as the state has done with him?[/quote] Yes. [/quote] Then they can count on a quick and painful bankruptcy. In fact, they may as well take the capital
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[quote user="Stranger"] Customer preferences in the western world appear to be against capital punishment. No police force will want to be seen as a brutal executioner, and since the number of homicidal maniacs in proportion to the total population is quite low, the costs of imprisonment are insignificant. It's also an insurance against
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[quote user="Stranger"] However, homicidal maniacs would still be imprisoned, as setting them free would pose too great a risk to the clients of the police force and possibly require them to compensate the victims for new crimes. It would then be cost-effective to imprison certain men. [/quote] Why bother imprisoning them? No PDA is going
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I don't believe in the Whig Theory of History. Things will get much worse before they ever get better.
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The minimum wage, which effectively outlaws jobs below an arbitrary minimum.
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[quote user="Byzantine"] Meso-Americans are a little more diverse in terms of outcomes but for the most part, they seem glad to be here and opportunistic. [/quote] Often though, 'latino' is just a catch-all category of otherwise unrelated Spanish speaking groups. That graph cites 'Latinos of all races'. It would be interesting