Re:Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-Year Expansion in...
by giraffe_lady on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @03:32PM
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When you start talking about actual human people in terms of "getting rid" of an "anti-social element" you know you've got an issue figured out and are definitely on the right side of it.
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Re:Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-Year Expansion in...
by lurk2 on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @06:08PM
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700 murders and 10,000 armed robberies per year.
Re:Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-Year Expansion in...
by stephen_g on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @09:33PM
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That's wild - the country I live in (Australia) has 10x the population of Chicago but only half as many homicides per year. It's hard to imagine that many in one city...
Re:Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-Year Expansion in...
by lurk2 on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @09:34PM
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Chicago doesn't even have the highest murder rate in America, that's the really wild thing.
Re:Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-Year Expansion in...
by tptacek on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @02:09PM
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It's not even in the top 20.
Re:Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-Year Expansion in...
by jobs_throwaway on Wednesday March 12, 2025 @01:32PM
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Yes, people who rob, murder, and shoot guns in crowded urban areas are anti-social and should be removed from society. This is 100% the right side of the issue and I can't believe anyone would pretend otherwise.
Re:Mapping the University of Chicago's 135-Year Expansion in...
by giraffe_lady on Thursday March 13, 2025 @10:18AM
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People who oppose you aren't pretending, I have sincere and deeply held objections to this sort of language and the actions they precede.
Anyway where are you even going to put them, where is a place outside of society? If you're thinking of prisons, why do we have this problem in the first place if we already imprison more people than any other country. If this hasn't worked so far what will be different when you do even more of it? Why are other countries able solve this issue in other ways?
A sincere & informed commitment to reducing violence quickly takes you in very different directions from this one. It's other values that have you itching to eliminate people you find undesirable.