Here here! It’s what they are indoctrinated to do in their defense. You make a good point that decades and decades of effort has gone into making things more secure has reduced the risk/reward for stuff like pickpocketing. I would bet they mostly target things like travel documentation now for identity theft, something more varied and readily available in multi country Europe than North America.
Just like it is your decision to make too? Do you not see how that applies right back to you as the victim that then perpetrates a crime? It is in no way moral to gun some one down because they stole your chocolate bar, or your daughters virginity for that matter. It is your decision to act in retaliation, howsoever you do, and yes you should be held accountable for how YOU handle a situation, any situation.
Do you hang around in large crowded tourist spots a lot? Crowded subways? Because that’s where they are, not walking down main St. Go to times square during any major event and they are out there, but as others commented, not at the levels you’ll see in European countries. Why, who knows? Tactics change over the years, they’ve probably found more profitable avenues of theft in the USA, God knows it is rampant.
Man, it’s just shit. Life should be of higher value than an object, even if it’s a really cool object or useful. You beating someone for taking something is a bigger problem then things being taken. You can’t commit a crime because someone else also committed a crime first. Get it?
I think it’s actually a symptom of a small penis. Huge truck, big gun, itty bitty peepee.
It is, your just not gonna find pickpockets in rural places and most people don’t leave their county, let alone state so people are clueless how the world at large works. Go to any big city and you’ll find pick pockets at work. Further to that, many of their tourist places are far apart and remote so less likely to find them in the same kind of places as Europe, which draws large volumes of people reliably to the sames places from all over the world.
For the record, American’s don’t like anything.
You’ll have a great career in business
Anyone listening doesn’t need this pointed out anymore. Get a grip, you’ll never convinced those who lie to themselves that the truth will set them free.
TACO at it again. How’s it feel to be treated like a two year old by an abusive father America?
It needs to be prohibitive to amass the kind of wealth these people are stealing from our pockets. They are making record profits and historical wealth off of decades of suppressed wages and they want us fighting each other instead of them about it. Fuck the system, fight the power.
Gandhi was a creepy dude. Had some good things to say, made a lasting impact on the world, and had some very questionable actions. I don’t think I’d be hanging out with Gandhi either, nor Hitler for that matter. Got any David Bowie?
Yes, but in America it is acceptable to shoot an unarmed teenager running away for stealing a candy bar, so not exactly preaching to the choir here
Yeah, but also have you seen the bill reduction that comes when you don’t have insurance. Suddenly it’s only $7000 to fix your broken leg instead of $173000. It’s like magic
Inhibition is a learned trait. Modesty comes from a long time ago when some people freaked out because they saw a penis or something?! Seriously though, religious people don’t like promiscuity and they think hiding our “shame” will make it go away. Fucking idiots.
I think you’ve hit the nail on the head. No one knows what to do about it or they know they can’t stop what’s already been done, so why bother even trying to change. This is what got humans here in the first place, we pretend we know answers when we don’t, or at least say some paltry offering as making a difference. We can adapt to the changes that are coming, but it means reinventing our entire way of life, and the people at the top of the pile don’t t want to upset the system where they are at the top of the pile. Change has to come from the people, forcing the change. Our leaders have proven themselves incapable of breaking from the shackles of the old so we won’t make it to the new way unless we make it happen. We can’t leave it to others anymore, we have to do it.
You are right, but life will always find a way, but we won’t necessarily. The powers of this world have shown their colours, we asked them to play nice and fair and created systems to hold them in check. They just bought their way into leader of the free world and have gutted all that hard work of the last 75 years so they can go back to being incredibly shitty. As many of us go vegan or use paper straws, the worse culprits for waste streams are the creators, not the users/consumers and things will continue to get worse. Money is the root of all evil in that it drives decisions over the health and wellbeing of people, animals, the environment or the planet. Anything for a buck…
Come find out how polite Canada is when you step on our toes and try to take over the country. They invented international laws because of how ruthless we are when pressed.
Apparently Elon is Bender? He’s starting his own political party, with Black Jack, and hookers!
Well if you’ve never experienced it then I guess it just never happens?!