[Timon3]

> That path is kindness: get a job, don't feel the urge to commit a crime, avoid prison to be sure you live a good life, and abstain from crime if you are poor. Crime continue to exist because selfish people put selfish needs ahead of sociology and human rights. People refuse to change their behavior, and, because (not "so long as") they refuse, there will be no end to crime of any sort. Sure, there are edge cases of accidental theft or something else non-criminal, but the vast bulk of cases are from irresponsible criminal behavior.

I'd wager the guess that a lot of crime committed by poor people is committed because they are poor. Think of a single mother stealing food for her and her children. They are putting their "selfish needs ahead of sociology and human rights", but I don't think people would call them unethical. You're proposing too simplistic a framework.

[kstrauser]

(Read the above as if it was Tom Swift saying we should eat babies.)

Edit: John.

[Timon3]

I'm not sure what you're trying to say. Can you express it more clearly?

[BHSPitMonkey]

The reply about how to end crime was sarcastically mocking the original comment, similarly to the way "A Modest Proposal" mocked other helpful suggestions of its time.

[Timon3]

Makes sense, thank you!

I'll leave my way-too-literal interpretation in case someone gets a kick out of it.

[kstrauser]

It’s satire of the post it was responding to.

[cgriswald]

You mean Johnathan Swift.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

[kstrauser]

Oh, good grief. I even googled that right before I wrote it, and my fingers still refused to go along with the right answer.