Nice insurance guy: Was the car locked?Anyway, I've been contemplating justice. What does it mean to advocate justice in the United States? More welfare for the poor? More homeless shelters? Higher taxes for the rich? Bigger jails to hold car thieves? Making lawsuits harder? Making medical malpractice suits easier?
Me: Yes - presumably that's why they broke the window.
Me thinking: You know, I'm not a member of the Frequent Auto Burglars Association, but generally I assume that the reason burglars break car windows is because the car was locked. Now maybe there's a bunch of thieves that just break the windows without checking, but in that case, it doesn't really matter if the car was locked or not, does it?
I've been realizing how much I tend to think of justice in a handful of options - jail time, fines, or death. But rarely do those options seem like effective executions of justice.
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If any of these things actually were 100% full proof, we wouldn't need the other ones. At least some kind of social responsibility helps - here, just yesterday the same kind of thing happened. A car was parked on the road, two guys passing by broke the window to steal the stereo. The thing that is more shocking is that 1) a bunch of people heard this happen 2) went out to see what was going on 3) no one did a damn thing and the two guys just walked away down the street, carrying the radio, and no one said anything to them. Happens all the time here. And these guys will never be investigated and they will never be caught. And they will probably come back next week and do it again. It's a normal course of life here because nothing is done in terms of social responsibility; neither in response to crime or in prevention.
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