• Zephyr@sh.itjust.works
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    3 hours ago

    We totally can. It’s just difficult to get past that some people want more than others even if that means harming them.

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      3 hours ago

      Some people take joy in hurting others. I have no faith that we can fix that.

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        2 hours ago

        Fix? Not without some eugenics (traditional or modern). Mitigate? We can definitely mitigate it. There was a study recently that showed that it’s not really the punishment for a crime that dieters people, it’s the probability they will or won’t get caught that’s the primary factor. So for instance if there’s a 98% chance they will get caught people are unlikely to commit the crime and if there is a 5% chance they will be caught they are much more likely to commit the crime even if the punishment is extremely harsh. There’s of course a balancing act between personal freedoms and privacy and the ability to catch people aka the more privacy people have the more difficult it is to catch crime and generally the less privacy (and ability to parse large sums of data) the easier it is.