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Culture War Roundup for the week of May 1, 2023

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The fact that they haven't suggests that the people would prefer to deal with the occasional nuisance of subway bums than subject them to what they feel are the deleterious effects of "the system".

This only follows if governments run perfectly and have no principal/agent or other problems that prevent the will of the people from working.

And that only follows if there is broad public consensus that some people are human garbage who are undeserving of basic rights and that violence against them should be ignored provided it's executed with some broad excuse of having the "public interest" in mind. Something tells me that no such public consensus exists.

That's the case in India, and looking around, I don't see anything particularly wrong with the state of affairs when it comes to policing of violent crime or theft.

Seriously, you Westerners are spoiled, society doesn't breakdown overnight when common people beat up thieves, thugs or miscellaneous dirtbags, no matter how much you wring your hands afterwards.

Does it break down totally? No. Does it make it an undesirable place to live? I don't know, weren't you extolling the virtues of London a while back because you could walk down the street with your girlfriend without drawing the opprobrium of the community? I can't imagine how little it would take for one to be considered a "miscellaneous dirtbag" and thus subject to senseless beatings.

Once again, you're severely miscalibrated it you think a couple walking down the street is at any real risk of harm.

India itself supposedly frowns on PDA, yet my girl and I have gotten away with quite a bit.

There really are stable equilibria between anarcho-tyranny and fascism, and one would be that assholes committing significant crimes get their asses handed to them, while otherwise benign behavior or very mild offenses don't cause a ruckus.