This is basically the sick of the crack heads thread but replacing crackheads with shoplifters
If you make something socially acceptable - stealing , drugs in public - you will see a rise . And that rise will lead to another rise
There are a ton of very complex and different reasons why a person partakes in either on both ends of the spectrum , but in the end if a society accepts the behaviour it will continue to spread regardless of any other actions
Giving these looters $1000 a month for food isn’t going to stop the looting . It’s just going to make the looters $1000 richer
No one is worried about the toothpaste being taken here and there by a grandma or a kid eating a grape . It’s the organized full looting that is now socially accepted .
These aren’t “down on their luck citizens “ . These are criminals
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