China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nobody wants

Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by keiferski on Thursday February 22, 2018 @07:34PM (#16443031)

There are plenty of western “free countries” with little-to-no street crime. It’s not an either-or situation.

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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by comex on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:07PM (#16443874)

And non-Western - just look at Japan.

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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by SN76477 on Thursday February 22, 2018 @09:25PM (#16443695)

I have been thinking lately about the purpose of crime. Obviously people get robbed and bad things happen, but what would happen in a society without crime? is it possible that crime has a larger purpose?

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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by brokenmachine on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:43PM (#16444038)

It's hard when there are so many laws on the books that it's almost impossible to not break one here and there.

"Crime" is a very loose term. Things like robbery and assault are obvious but there are a lot of laws out there that have no real "victim", or are enforced only when the powers that be have an inclination to.

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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by 45h34jh53k4j on Thursday February 22, 2018 @10:00PM (#16443838)

stagnation. without risk there is no progress.

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Re:China's Xinjiang surveillance is the dystopian future nob... by SN76477 on Friday February 23, 2018 @01:28AM (#16444631)

would you say that without crime humans would be complacent?

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