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Lot of these comments are weird.
I'm fortunate enough where if someone stole my car, its not the end of the world. I work from home. I can afford to pay for Uber or public transportation. My life is mildly inconvenienced.
Where my buddy works two minwage jobs. Steal his car, and he's going to struggle a lot. I helped him when his car was in the shop, and he was a mess.
And yet commenters here are going, "Poor car thief what a victim of circumstance." While also totally cool with him fucking over others? Your empathy is fascinating.
The criminals here are the billionaires who created a system where you friend has to work TWO minimum wages job to barely get by. Don't defend a broken system, eat the billionaires!
The criminals are also the car thieves, making their own class struggle more.
I've stuggeled plenty in my life as well, yet I've never stolen anything. I hate billionaires and I also hate car thiefs. Don't be a douche.
Sometimes Lemmy has the bizarrest of takes
why? it's a conversation about the impact of theft. Theft is wrong and should be punished and shunned, but the only real solution is to attack the causes of crime, otherwise it's whack-a-mole.
Why is it a bizarre take to say "instead of just plugging the hole the water is coming through, we should also fix leaking pipes causing the flood?"
(note italics to denote caring about several things at the same time, I think its weirder to assume crime has only one cause and one solution: the perpetrator)
They're not defending the system by saying car thieves suck, you nut