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[–] 30 points 2 months ago (14 children)

Number of cumulative years they would be imprisoned for, had they been caught and convicted of every single crime they ever committed.

I'm betting most adults are not at zero.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago

    Nobody's at zero. It's been said that the average American commits 3 felonies per day. The law is so long that you couldn't read it in a lifetime. There are more criminalized actions than you can imagine.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    This wouldn't impart any useful information in a world where rapist pedophiles get time served and protesters get a life sentence for being adjacent to another crime handing out zines.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Crime is such a subjective, context and time dépendant metric that it makes no sense to use here.

    Are you one of those people who thinks things being legal equates to things being moral?

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I feel like this would be a misleading measure. My dad has been self medicating anxiety, adhd, trauma, and potentially autism with pot for about 40 years, in our state an oz is 6 months on first offence. If we only count that on his usual consumption rate, baring any time he's got extra, tried other things, or the myriad of other dubious things he's gotten into, he's lookimg at 1,440 years in jail. If you add anything about quality, growing, having large amounts, that's going to skyrocket. In comparison, a double homicide nets you 100 points in this hypothetical.

    Put my stoner dad next to a serial pedophile with 10 victims below the age of 12 and my dad looks like a fucking monster.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Oh, I'm probably up to 1000 years just for listening to music from the internet.

    Maybe the number should exclude victimless crimes.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Fuck, I didn't think about that. The only reason I didn't starve to death in highschool was the money i made torrenting moves and selling bootlegs of new or obscure films and games. I'd make Manson look like rookie numbers...

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    You can't fix it until you can measure it.

    If everyone knew this number about everybody, a lot of stupid laws would change overnight.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    This works only if all laws are correct. Otherwise you end up seeing "100 years" for copyright infringement. In the world you imagined, who cares why they have 100 years on em? The never-can-be-bad law is always correct, and a 100 year sentence is always just and good. Otherwise who gives a fuck?

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