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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
All that, because someone stole a pack of gum and got caught.
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Nobody is talking about a pack of gum. This is about smash & grabs or shopping carts full of stolen goods.
+1 to JMintzer's comment "reductio absurdum fallacy".
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Originally Posted by OrangeBlossomBaby
...jailing shoplifters .... It doesn't teach the shoplifter a lesson
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I disagree. The lesson currently being taught is breaking the law has no consequences. Prison teaches the opposite lesson.