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by Larrikin 3067 days ago
>>Sounds like a terrible idea. What if there is a community which just doesn't contain many dangerous people at all? If someone from this community commits a crime once in a blue moon they will be unfairly punished.

Now imagine if people were unfairly punished based on something they were born with and not where they lived.

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The justice system is meant to treat every person using the exact same criteria, as long as it's statistically relevant. That people are born in places where crime is higher isn't a problem the justice can or should handle; it's completely outside its domain of responsibility.