Re:Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
by cromka on Thursday June 06, 2024 @07:05PM
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People also maliciously ignore the obvious fact that living in a society which is lenient towards burglary automatically attracts opportunists, who were not actually poor in the first place.
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Re:Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
by ben_jones on Thursday June 06, 2024 @11:40PM
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People like watering down good versus bad as if it were binary. They don’t care to think a good person can sometimes be bad, or that many crimes are crimes of opportunity, because then they’d have to question their own goodness
Re:Squatting in Spain: Understanding Spain's "okupas" problem
by im3w1l on Friday June 07, 2024 @12:27PM
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Do you really think people he met on some random hiking trip are "maliciously ignoring obvious facts" as some convoluted political tactic?
Personally I think it's because people have these standard narratives floating around in their mind, and pattern-match them reflexively even when it doesn't make sense.