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I'm curious about what the progressive answer is to what I'd say has been my most common experience of crime
I’ve been punched in the face for shits and giggles by a guy pretending to be an aeroplane, just while walking down the street. Not a great experience, despite it actually being quite funny in retrospect, but generally there are reasons for this behaviour.
You could lock the guy up to protect others, or you could do a number of other things which dissuade him from doing it again. Maybe compulsory therapy, fines, anger management, community service, a violence register with various consequences in the public realm, and I’m sure there are lots of other methods too.
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This bit of the post from the other page;
I recognise that there are a lot of problems with our current system, so I'm curious about what the progressive answer is to what I'd say has been my most common experience of crime.
And honestly, sure it's something that does illicit a reactionary gut response. But the question stands.