Nobody decides to become the kind of person who will stab a stranger in order to get at what’s inside her pockets. That’s a choice life makes for you.
This is something I feel so strongly about. A lot of conversation around crime, especially burglary and theft, focuses on the impact and not the cause. I’ve dealt with a lot of theft in my life, and while it never feels good to have something taken from me, the vast majority of those thefts were perpetrated by people experiencing dire need. Mugging a person isn’t a fun hobby – it’s an act of desperation. Nobody involved in that kind of interaction wants to be there.
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