I've thought about this problem and don't have a generally applicable answer.
On the one hand, I don't want someone to steal my bike or have their bike stolen.
On the other, the police are the worst and will probably make the situation worse.
So I lean towards "don't call the cops", but it feels like there should be something to do other than taking on the full risk of intervening yourself.
There’s a reason they started making physical locks for this, it wasn’t because they were just sitting around one day in a corpse-free office and decided it would be a fun project to undertake.
I believe a lot of rules are written in blood, but some people think they're too smart for chesterton's fence.
Fines should scale with wealth. Millionaire wants to speed? Okay, pay a $100,000 fine.
These same accounts keep denouncing tickets and speed cameras.
This is common conservative "Outgroups to bind, in-groups to protect" dysfunction. They're bad people.
Well Musk is an idiot and a nazi, so.
Oh, double post but I also remembered there was a band in the mid 2010s called Jawbreaker Reunion. I imagine a lot of fans of Jawbreaker did a double take when they saw signs for like "Jawbreaker Reunion tonight!"
Cheaper if you ignore the externalized costs.
And yet the right wing is whining about moon laser climate control instead of this kind of thing.
A sort of country blues song about how my cat would ignore my friend until they went into the bathroom to poop, and then the cat was all about hanging out and being affectionate.
"You only love me when I'm pooping.."
I think many people operate at an extremely basic level of moral reasoning. That is, if they get punished it's bad otherwise it's fine.
So if they post something bad and get upvotes and attention, that's good. That's it. That's the extent of the reasoning.
So I do think if some people actually got punished in a meaningful way, they would (to an outside observer) appear to get better.
Hitting people in the face probably isn't the best way to do it, most of the time. But I don't think just telling someone "hey, that thing you did was hurtful for x y z". They're not listening. They don't care. Hit them with a ban, maybe.
Some people are capable of more complex reasoning and realize other people have thoughts and feelings, and take that into account. But some people, that's not their default.
I'm told the band No Men were originally going to call themselves Aerosmith 2, but decided against it
It's one of the things that makes me want to slap conservatives. They'll be like "we want stay at home parents raising kids" but they'll also be like "we don't want to pay labor enough to do that".
Idiots and monsters.
Well, the context used to just be there. Now it's not, and this is worse.