<One should not blame the victim, but if you walk down a dark alley at night carrying a basketful of cash or if a sexy woman walks down a dark alley at night wearing almost nothing -- what happens will be predictable, and the victims damned fools.>
In Japan it's not predictable. In 1990, a student who stayed with us in NZ was visiting our son Tarken-san and I at a youth hostel in Tokyo, and she was going to walk through a park at night to get there. I offered to meet her at the station but she said not to because "This is Japan and it's perfectly safe".
In Japan, they walk around at night with wads of cash. Tarken-san [then 13] and I were walking around at 2 am looking for accommodation near Ueno station and semi-pickled guys were offering us money, which we declined with thanks. They were happy couples and people, out having fun. No feeling of threat. If we'd dropped a wallet, they'd have run after us with it.
It's not like that in China, despite Bubba the Babbling and Yiwu the Mad thinking China is the greatest place and the Japanese are evil-doers. China is a thieving, dishonest place by comparison. Getting change can be hard work.
Japan is apparently still highly safe according to Tarken-san who lives and works there now. Yes, yes, I've heard of Yakusa and I'm sure all the police in Japan aren't there just for fun and to make work.
It would be much better to adjust the minds of the potential perpetrators than to treat a city as a swamp full of crocodile disguised as humans. Putting said perpetrators in cat food cans, with their photos and crimes on the label, would a good way of adjusting their minds.
Allowing abortion on demand seems to be another way of adjusting their minds [preventing unwanted, unloved, rejected, undisciplined, wounded and angry people from being produced in the first place]. Some are just nasty, bad pieces of work and slip through the abortion net, appearing out of allegedly "good" families to wreak havoc and their thinking would be adjusted by cat food pictures.
The twin pillars of stopping rational crime = knowing you'll be caught and knowing the consequences will be bad. The mad will still cause carnage, though even a lot of the mad are not mad enough to stand in the way of trains and take on big tough police armed with machine guns. Their madness is conveniently situational. "Well yer honor, I felt my old schizo self taking over, and then I completely lost it, and didn't know what I was doing, waking up to find myself running, for some reason". Plea = insanity. Yeah, right.
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PS: In Australia, there's somewhere that made it illegal to leave your car unlocked. Crazy! That causes crime they say, so they blame the victim! The cost of crime is enormous but about half the population are crooks so they don't want laws to be too stringent - it's the OTHER people stealing who are bad. If there was no crime, the economic boost would be about 10% per year. Stores could be unattended, doors not need locks, cars not need locks and could be started by pushing a button. |
