If you’re thinking in tickets and arrests, you’re not really thinking about justice.

  • Bassword [he/him]
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    12 years ago

    They’re probably giving out fines too. China loves using small fines for minor crimes.

    • Nagarjuna [he/him]OP
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      62 years ago

      Small fines consistently applied are more effective than random large punishments in deterring crime. Some cities even have fair checkers who can’t give out tickets, just ask you to get off at the next stop and it’s just as effective.

      • booty [he/him]
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        52 years ago

        More effective than random large punishments, sure, but fines are still a fundamentally ineffective way of discouraging whatever behavior. If something is punishable by a fine, that means poor people aren’t allowed to do it and rich people are, nothing more and nothing less.

          • booty [he/him]
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            22 years ago

            Fine as a portion of income.

            No, that really doesn’t fix it. 50% of Elon Musk’s income is an absurd, unfathomable amount of money, and it could vanish into the ether without affecting his quality of life at all. 50% of the average person’s income would put them on the streets.