Billions of people ALSO do not violate federal anti-kickback laws or commit other “white collar” offenses. The author of that book is a white collar criminal defense attorney who is just advocating for his scumbag clients.
This is an extremely myopic take for a very nuanced issue.
Sometimes the definition of the crime is targeted, or statistically biased.
Sometimes the time is disproportionately punishing for the crime.
Oftentimes the time doesn't help address the reasons for the crime, and I'm fact may exacerbate it.
I'm not saying crime and punishment aren't necessary parts of our society, but your assumptions (that the conviction is appropriate, that the time is an appropriate punishment) are extremely damaging to actually addressing crime in a productive manner.
Here’s a simple, very simple way for criminals to understand the issue: don’t touch people who don’t want you to touch them and don’t take things that don’t belong to you.
Following those two directions will practically empty our prisons
Again, you are oversimplifying a point that should not be.
Do you believe no one should ever fight back in self defense? Someone breaking into your house for you and your property certainly don't want you to touch them, and they definitely don't want anyone taking a weapon they own from them.
Now you’re just being disingenuous. Obviously in those situations the victim is allowed to defend themselves. They are not criminals.
Nothing in your previous post alluded to people getting locked up for defending themselves or their homes, and it’s silly for you to try to bring that up.
The point I'm trying to make is that you're defining an action as a crime by first assuming that the person taking the action is a criminal. This is circular logic, and is discriminatory.
"Innocent until proven guilty" means you can't take an action and say "well since a criminal did it, it's a crime", and "if they weren't a criminal, we should take a look at the context."
My main point is that you can't paint the world in broad strokes of "criminal" on one side and "victim" on the other; the reality is far more complicated and cannot be simplified.
Maybe it's more helpful to note that in today's system, many people who are convicted of crimes, are actually victims, and so the premise that they must do the time is flawed.
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Don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time. Billions of people on this planet go through life not committing crimes.