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Originally Posted by Nage Waza
Interesting...so when does a law that prevents me from filling my own slurpee come into place? After all, if we prevent anyone from entering a store then there won't be any holdups either. And to make things safer, you have to register yourself as a shopper so that you can't hold up anyone who is in line outside the store waiting for products to be pushed out the takeout window.
Sounds like a really good leftist idea to me.
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Excellent hyperbole. I didn't think it could be blown that far out of proportion, but it was done!
I am going to guess the people stealing gas or more of a threat to society than the ones stealing slurpees. I'd also guess the cost of gas is more than the cost of a slurpee. With that in mind, the new law would deter the more dangerous and costly criminal. When the thieves can simply drive away with a full tank of gas without having any confrontation, this leads to more opportunity and less deterent. If you have to go into the store and face a person, you are less likely to commit the crime. A store employee would be less likely to chase you over a slurpee than a tank of gas if it came out of his pay cheque, keeping in mind I don't think it should ever come out of his/her paycheque.