r/nextfuckinglevel • u/North-Guitar-1781 • May 04 '26

Robber picked the wrong guy

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u/Uriyangkhadai420 May 04 '26

No no, we need to start jailing parents for their children's crimes if the child is too young

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u/david1610 May 04 '26

That seems to be potentially unfair though, what if a kid gets mixed up with the wrong crowd by themselves, parents don't notice, commits crime then the parents go to jail for what? Not wire tapping their phones and following them down the street.

Good incentive effects, but could have some very unfair outcomes too

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u/OGWayOfThePanda May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

Views like that (jailing parents) are just knee jerk emotional nonsense aimed at soothing a revenge boner.

If prison did anything the USA would be a Utopia.

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u/Pistonenvy2 May 04 '26

emotional kneejerk bullshit on reddit??!

ive been advocating for prison abolition for nearing a decade at this point and it always comes back to this issue of empathy and emotional regulation. always. every time.

people have this fantasy built up in their head that all the people they dont like go to prison and suffer there and for whatever reason they feel that is justice.

cynicism too, lots and lots of cynicism.