The Frivolity of Evil - and shoplifting
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In light of a surprising number of people heavily sympathizing with petty crimes, I thought I’d share a good article on the moral fabric declining in the west — famous, though many people may have missed. It is not about shoplifting, but similarities can not be ignored (nor the high overlap between what the author of the article addresses, with petty crime).
The truth is, petty crimes will always be a demoralizer for the tax paying majority of low to middle class decent humans who never wanted to disrespect anyone, rich or poor. This is not normal behavior. The average poor person wants to live in a world where honesty and modesty are the currencies of success.
Consider one thought: petty crime was undoubtedly infinitely more rare 100 years ago, yet people were indisputably more poor. Ask your impoverished, seasonally barefoot, cotton picking grandparents (at least mine were) what they would’ve done if they saw someone stealing from a JC Penny’s, corporate store or not. And no I don’t condone stabbing shoplifters.
The peons find themselves fighting the death by a thousand cuts of cultural demise, by standing up, however futilely, and regardless of the punishment that gets turned around on them:
The petty criminals
The article
https://www.city-journal.org/article/the-frivolity-of-evil