Interesting.
I am not trying to say that the victims are not victims... Nor is bleeding heart trying to say that... I sympathize with the victims. However, everybody is saying we should cut off limbs of the thieves without looking at what would happen... Thieves are a product of their environment. Not lucky enough to have good jobs or have a society willing to help. If your poor the only way your going to make it in this society if you not lucky enough to get a good job is to become a thief. Some people drink, some people drink to excess to get away from their problems when things get tough, become alcoholics. The rich/middle class by cars, pools, houses, and stuff to make themselves feel good. The poor don't have that option...they spend that last ten bucks on crack that will allow them to feel good in their otherwise dreary lives. Then they want that good feeling all the time. They become addicts and then need to fuel the habit by the only means they know how... by that point they don't care who their hurting because of the drug. We all sympathize with the victim... but what help is our sympathy to them? We have to solve the problem, thus we have to start where the problem is... The crook... He is poor... if he wasn't poor, he wouldn't do crack... if he didn't do crack, he wouldn't steal, if didn't steal there would be no victims, if there are no victims we don't have to sympathize with them. No one has a solution to poverty so until you do and have lived there perhaps you should try and empathize a little. I realize that some are kids joy riding and being rebellious, but that's because kids are treated without respect... thus they become rebellious. Even countries, when supressed become rebellious, why do you think it's any different with children. Treat them as adults and they will act like adults. I've never been a parent... but I have been a child...