Shoplifting is OK
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Long ago, it was understood that this kind of thing undermines a civilized society. People like order whether it is communist China or a suburb in Maryland. Reasoned arguments against such behavior don't typically work as effectively as a more direct intervention and adverse consequences.
@kluurs said in Shoplifting is OK:
Long ago, it was understood that this kind of thing undermines a civilized society. People like order whether it is communist China or a suburb in Maryland. Reasoned arguments against such behavior don't typically work as effectively as a more direct intervention and adverse consequences.
Order is the bedrock of civilization.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@kluurs said in Shoplifting is OK:
Long ago, it was understood that this kind of thing undermines a civilized society. People like order whether it is communist China or a suburb in Maryland. Reasoned arguments against such behavior don't typically work as effectively as a more direct intervention and adverse consequences.
Order is the bedrock of civilization.
@mik said in Shoplifting is OK:
@kluurs said in Shoplifting is OK:
Long ago, it was understood that this kind of thing undermines a civilized society. People like order whether it is communist China or a suburb in Maryland. Reasoned arguments against such behavior don't typically work as effectively as a more direct intervention and adverse consequences.
Order is the bedrock of civilization.
Anybody invested in the social justice narrative and the righteousness of riots and neighborhood takeovers would disagree. Which is to say, any of the millions and millions of mainstream progressives would disagree.
Not that they would stick to that priority if disorder ever hit them in their own white upper class neighborhoods... but it mostly hasn't yet. They still proudly espouse a belief system that is free of any personal sacrifice.
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@kluurs said in Shoplifting is OK:
Long ago, it was understood that this kind of thing undermines a civilized society. People like order whether it is communist China or a suburb in Maryland. Reasoned arguments against such behavior don't typically work as effectively as a more direct intervention and adverse consequences.
Order is the bedrock of civilization.
@mik said in Shoplifting is OK:
@kluurs said in Shoplifting is OK:
Long ago, it was understood that this kind of thing undermines a civilized society. People like order whether it is communist China or a suburb in Maryland. Reasoned arguments against such behavior don't typically work as effectively as a more direct intervention and adverse consequences.
Order is the bedrock of civilization.
Order is a bedrock of white civilization… China is white adjacent.
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I don't quite understand why these thieves aren't stopped. Is the security service not allowed to stop them?
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I don't quite understand why these thieves aren't stopped. Is the security service not allowed to stop them?
@klaus said in Shoplifting is OK:
Is the security service not allowed to stop them?
That's right.
And in San Francisco, taking less than $950 is a misdemeanor, which will probably never see the inside of a courtroom. In Chicago, it's $1000.
Assuming a cop arrests you, of course.
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I don't quite understand why these thieves aren't stopped. Is the security service not allowed to stop them?
@klaus said in Shoplifting is OK:
I don't quite understand why these thieves aren't stopped. Is the security service not allowed to stop them?
Stop them how? You say that like there's an ultimate authority of stoppage. You'd be right, in a society where the police were allowed to do their jobs. That is not the society those crimes are taking place in.
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@klaus said in Shoplifting is OK:
I don't quite understand why these thieves aren't stopped. Is the security service not allowed to stop them?
Stop them how? You say that like there's an ultimate authority of stoppage. You'd be right, in a society where the police were allowed to do their jobs. That is not the society those crimes are taking place in.
@horace said in Shoplifting is OK:
@klaus said in Shoplifting is OK:
I don't quite understand why these thieves aren't stopped. Is the security service not allowed to stop them?
Stop them how? You say that like there's an ultimate authority of stoppage. You'd be right, in a society where the police were allowed to do their jobs. That is not the society those crimes are taking place in.
Over here, a security service or store detective can do much less than what the police can do (for instance, they are not allowed to search a person), but they can use "appropriate" force to stop a thief from leaving before the police arrives.
Is that different in all of the US? Or just in California? Or just these cities?
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@horace said in Shoplifting is OK:
@klaus said in Shoplifting is OK:
I don't quite understand why these thieves aren't stopped. Is the security service not allowed to stop them?
Stop them how? You say that like there's an ultimate authority of stoppage. You'd be right, in a society where the police were allowed to do their jobs. That is not the society those crimes are taking place in.
Over here, a security service or store detective can do much less than what the police can do (for instance, they are not allowed to search a person), but they can use "appropriate" force to stop a thief from leaving before the police arrives.
Is that different in all of the US? Or just in California? Or just these cities?
@klaus said in Shoplifting is OK:
@horace said in Shoplifting is OK:
@klaus said in Shoplifting is OK:
I don't quite understand why these thieves aren't stopped. Is the security service not allowed to stop them?
Stop them how? You say that like there's an ultimate authority of stoppage. You'd be right, in a society where the police were allowed to do their jobs. That is not the society those crimes are taking place in.
Over here, a security service or store detective can do much less than what the police can do (for instance, they are not allowed to search a person), but they can use "appropriate" force to stop a thief from leaving before the police arrives.
Is that different in all of the US? Or just in California? Or just these cities?
Just remember, when America coughs the world catches a cold. It could also be said that when California coughs, America catches a cold.
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I don't quite understand why these thieves aren't stopped. Is the security service not allowed to stop them?
@klaus said in Shoplifting is OK:
I don't quite understand why these thieves aren't stopped. Is the security service not allowed to stop them?
To what end? To further enrich the retail store that achieved record profits last year and who have consistently and systemically marginalized so many BIBOC individuals by using racist tools such as “prices” to limit access to goods and services? If that’s not malignant and systemic racism, then I don’t know what is. The store didn’t make those goods and has no right to limit access of those goods to BIBOC. And the idea of using force to stop this individual? Just the idea is violence. Why are you so violent, @Klaus ?
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@mik said in Shoplifting is OK:
Would you risk life and limb for $15 an hour?
I did far worse things for $15 an hour. Horace said back then that his $15 were well spent, but he can't possibly be proud of what we did.
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@mik said in Shoplifting is OK:
Would you risk life and limb for $15 an hour?
I did far worse things for $15 an hour. Horace said back then that his $15 were well spent, but he can't possibly be proud of what we did.
@klaus said in Shoplifting is OK:
@mik said in Shoplifting is OK:
Would you risk life and limb for $15 an hour?
I did far worse things for $15 an hour. Horace said back then that his $15 were well spent, but he can't possibly be proud of what we did.
Well it's true that I can't possibly be proud of what I've done.
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@mik said in Shoplifting is OK:
Would you risk life and limb for $15 an hour?
I did far worse things for $15 an hour. Horace said back then that his $15 were well spent, but he can't possibly be proud of what we did.
@klaus said in Shoplifting is OK:
@mik said in Shoplifting is OK:
Would you risk life and limb for $15 an hour?
I did far worse things for $15 an hour. Horace said back then that his $15 were well spent, but he can't possibly be proud of what we did.
I don't think I want to know any more about this.
“I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” ~Winston S. Churchill
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@klaus said in Shoplifting is OK:
I appreciate all the sarcasm, but my questions were out of genuine curiosity.
Generally speaking, employees (including security staff) are not allowed to stop someone from stealing or leaving a store. In rare occasions, some security staff are allowed to carry weapons and stop people, but that is rare...usually seen at a bank or jewelry store.
It is unfortunate.
