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Simon Laird's avatar

I can report from inside the DC conservative movement that a lot of conservatives here actually aren't on the tough-on-crime team. That's why nothing gets done on this issue.

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Oldman's avatar

This is truly unfortunate

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Praemunire's avatar

Given how unsafe DC is, even for politicians and their staffers, one would think that self-preservation against criminals would be a sufficient motivator for them. Can anything convince conservative insiders to jail criminals?

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Rob's avatar

At the end of the day if you wanna get serious about solving the problem of vagrancy in American cities, along with a host of other issues, then re-instituationalizing the mentally ill in insane asylums is going to be necessary. You should do a piece on that.

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Esborogardius Antoniopolus's avatar

A lot of leftwing policies also have the effect of lowering report rates for most but the most violent crimes. As people and police agents learn that lenient DA won't persecute certain crimes, and that the perpetrators will soon be on the streets again, a lot of crimes will go unreported either because it is not worth the victim times, or because they know the perpetrators will soon be on the streets again, and they fear reprisals.

A lot of the violence in a neighborhood related to drug dealing falls in this category.

So, paradoxically, you end up in a situation where safety decreases at the same time crime reports go down and to make things worse, you have an insidious feedback loop here: The less crime report, the more powerful crime is, and the more afraid people are to report it.

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Pete McCutchen's avatar

Larry Niven wrote a story in which they took organs from prisoners. The incentive structure resulted in progressively less serious crimes resulting in the death penalty followed by organ harvesting until ultimately it was applied to traffic offenses.

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Grey Squirrel's avatar

Well I use a zit cream called Retino-A that was tested on people in the Pennsylvania pen. Also consider that their organs might not be that healthy. A lot of prisoners do, or have done, crack and heroin. The reason why paid plasma donation isn't done in Canada and they have to import from us is because Canadians got Aids from American prison donors.

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Crumpet's avatar

I remember reading about someone who had a heart transplant and then suddenly loved certain types of food the donor did. What happens if these organs convey criminality in a way we cannot yet fathom?!

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Oldman's avatar

Many people fear that. Transplant recipients are usually well-studied for psychological outcomes, and besides anxiety or depression for obvious reasons, there is no evidence of personality change in direction of the donor’s personality according to the stoodies.

Don’t worry, we are only doing informed and EVIDENCE-BASED policies here.

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Crumpet's avatar

Let's pray the evidence doesn't lead us to that conclusion one day! But I think it's an excellent suggestion and thank you for writing it - it tickled the hought experiment part of my brain.

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troy milton's avatar

As a white liberal I will always be there to unleash the colonized on my fellow settlers.

This is because I was born into privilege which gives me the authority to destroy it.

Let natural selection commence through open borders and soft on crime policy

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troy milton's avatar

Producing for anyone other then our selves is slavery.

Fk being a "productive member of society"

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Andreas Coen's avatar

Don’t incentivize euthanasia.

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Rajeev Ram's avatar

Euthanasia should be promoted to those who are not only clearly incapable of contributing to society, but only ever detract from it. No need for formal policies. Incentives are sufficient.

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Marcus Tisdale's avatar

This qualifies as both cruel AND unusual punishment and wildly unconstitutional. Just the kind of unhinged idea I’d expect in this corner of substack.

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Disemelevatorized's avatar

This is disgusting! Organ donation is an abomination and imagine having some nigger criminal organs in your body. I’d rather die. Organ donation changes personalities look it up.

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Oldman's avatar

Sir, you are too based for me

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Patrick Kniesler's avatar

The personality changes make sense from a gut biome understanding. Some people would rather live.

I'm not an organ donor because I don't want somebody making a utilitarian decision on me after an accident.

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