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@BowsacNoodle

most ppl here are simply wrong and my patience wears thin. prevention is better than cure. as they enter adolescence, lack of empathy is clearly discernible. watch them closely for a few years so that several people can be absolutely certain about the diagnosis.

psychopaths are obvious and must disappear at 10-12 years. quick dispatch is necessary because of danger to smaller children.

general narcs/antisocial/creepy should disappear at 14-16 years. before they get too big/strong. their parents getting older and less likely to make a replacement child.

pre-crime is a dangerous concept. Specifically because a lot of “symptoms“ of antisocial personality disorders are explained away with other causes, especially at a young age with changing hormones. Caning offenders seems to work great, because it hurts so bad you can even do a shorter jail sentence and have very low recidivism with average people. At least in Singapore.

It's already bad enough that you have government officials settling personal scores using the legal system as a hammer. Imagine what happens when you get rid of the requirement that there be some kind of convincing evidence that a crime has occurred. They'll just go nuts and chase down whoever they want.

This is also BTW why "eugenics" (government sterilizing those with weak genes) is a dead end. Any system that is not robust against corruption is NGMI.
Because I just assumed that nobody would be dumb enough to consider combining pre-crime with vigilante justice at the same time.

That basically amounts to "I punch anyone I don't like the look of", jail was literally invented to contain people who do that.

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Yea, vigilante justice does KIND OF work if the guy you're doing justice to is very obviously a horrible person, everybody 100% knows it, and the public justice system is doing absolutely nothing.

Pre-crime doesn't really work at all, but it seems like it might work if it was very institutionalized and the case was made against the people in a very convincing way - it still doesn't work, but for subtle reasons.

Combining the two is just being a violent psychopath that punishes whoever the voices tell him to.
>i drive a 3rd hand nissan with body damage, 2 color panels, tinted windows, loud exhaust and loud music. what do i look like?

we both know the answer to this, and yes there is some gray area but 9 times out of 10 if you were a cop and pulled over one of these vehicles you'd find guns and drugs

precrime is a silly idea, but profiling and logical use of policing isn't
plus people ignore that cops patrol the same places, they know the faces, they know what people are up to. shit if you ever did any of these behaviors you'd also see the patterns when people are doing criminal shit
I would go so far as to say it's reasonable to expect everyone who wants to live / be in a certain place to carry liability insurance (or have enough assets to sue) in case they do criminal shit.

But none of these things are the same as actual pre-crime, because they can't really be used by a corrupt official to frame somebody for "criminal intent".

As much as I hate the concept of using insurance to mitigate antisocial behavior, it’s at least a solution to a lot of the unacknowledged problems in libertarian adjacent ideas. The likely results would be a social credit score mandated by a private company, but at least the rules would be more transparent.

They already kind of do it with house prices.

But "assets that can be sued" makes it so it doesn't drain you out with a mortgage just to live in a safe neighborhood.

And insurance at least offers the possibility that "known to be a good person" MIGHT be substituted for "wealthy". If insurance would be deregulated so it's not all controlled by like 3 companies, that would probably go along way to fixing the fuckery in that business.