Indeed, nobody commits a murder because it is allowed. Passion crimes are committed when something much larger than a law make people to do the unspeakable. Honour, revenge, protection of a life’s achievement, rejected love, adultery are the triggers.
Poverty and low chance of detection drive petty crimes like stealing.
Someone famous said that a low crime society is an indication of a dictatorship: Extremely harsh sentences and a failing and arbitrary court system.
Indeed, crime rates in Nazi-Germany and North Korea were/are very low indeed.
Crime rates in the West are declining. Never before there were so few robberies, thefts, car thefts etc. Surveillance and fewer testosterone driven young males with no future are the reason. Still, media instil a feeling of insecurity which makes people ask for more and more rules and police.
The freedom to commit a crime is a taboo subject.
Big brother is growing and we allow it. See Apple versus the FBI. Privacy is valued less than the ability of sinister governments institutions at stopping a few morons from what they will do anyway.
I do not advocate crime, but I do acknowledge that some wrong will always be done by a very few of us, no matter how strict laws and surveillance are. Live with it, do not stifle freedom of all for abuses of a few. We all would be to loose.
(Post inspired by a post from facebook friend of mine)
Do you think you could never do a wrong?