Ask Howard Treesong About Law or Lawyering

[Howard Treesong]

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Let me also observe that I thought the vigilante situation was not clear cut. I do not think we should live in a society that permits theft or robbery without significant risk to the perp

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Imprisonment isn't a significant risk?

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Hard to say. I think there are plenty of places in this country where simple theft isn't prosecuted all that often, or, as in my case, where the nearest police station to my house growing up was twenty minutes away, easy. I think the argument is here that private deterrence really does have an impact on this type of crime.

I don't have a good feel for how valid that arugment is, though.