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Originally posted by feydrautha
Originally posted by Spock Shock
are you using the spock avatar ironically?
Awesome.
Originally posted by Mach Shadows
all you can do is get tougher laws and enforce them to the point that people will be afraid to commit crimes
Originally posted by Yarcofin
they already have cameras everywhere, and they almost always have warning signs advising so on the front door. If you don't like it, find somewhere else to shop.
Originally posted by Kryties
Originally posted by logician magician
What are you talking about?
Nice, don't answer my question why don't you. I'll ask it again: Why on earth did you think this was about a nightclub?
Q: What are you talking about? How can a nightclub refuse to let some people in the door based on an arbitrary judgment?
A: Freedom.
There is nothing wrong with telling people to expose their faces while on your property.
Originally posted by scientist
it seems you guys are trying to correlate hoodies with crime.
Stores are private operations... you don't have the RIGHT to be there, the store gives you the priviledge of shopping there, usually implied unless you break their rules.
The best way to combat crime is to remove the incentive for it.
but what about when all stores have cameras, and there is nowhere else to shop?
Originally posted by logician magician
Originally posted by scientist
it seems you guys are trying to correlate hoodies with crime.
Actually, it's more like they are trying to correlate concealment with crime - which is a perfectly valid correlation.
Originally posted by C.C.Benjamin
Well, if they weren't committing crimes and then hiding their identity by covering their heads and faces, this measure wouldn't need to be taken, would it?
Police state my arse, I have no sympathy for these hoodie kids. If you need to hide your face, you've done something wrong.
I normally agree with your posts (as I'm a massive 40k fan myself, I recognise your assassin picture) but on this one I'm not with you, I'm afraid!
Originally posted by scientist
Originally posted by logician magician
Originally posted by scientist
it seems you guys are trying to correlate hoodies with crime.
Actually, it's more like they are trying to correlate concealment with crime - which is a perfectly valid correlation.
I couldnt disagree more. "if you dont have anything to hide, you have nothing to worry about." right?
The perception or attribution, rightly or wrongly, of criminality carries a strong social stigma.
In sociological theory, a stigma is an attribute, behavior, or reputation which is socially discrediting in a particular way: it causes an individual to be mentally classified by others in an undesirable, rejected stereotype rather than in an accepted, normal one.
Originally posted by dahl
i think this is a stupid comment are you 60+ or something. im 18 and i only have hoodies shirts that all i wear and im not walkin around do in crimes all the time, i just #in hate when people sees me i dont wanna be sen by these pathetic humans that exists i feel like im allways doing something wrong and by wearing hoodies i feel allot more comfterbul