100% agree with your response.
Unfortunately, that is modern FR. A growing number of silly people who don’t consider the fact that a person who would kill a man over $40 is most probably a BIGGER criminal than a parking lot scammer. Someone who can switch-on to kill mode that quickly is either a gangbanger of sorts, or someone with extremely limited (and dangerous) impulse control.
All you need to do is look at FR posts from 10-15-20 years ago, and compare them with most posts nowadays.
The politics of Democratic Underground fortunately haven’t taken root here (we are still for small government - for now although that has been slowly changing towards larger government, God, liberty, the Constitution, etc), but the stupidity of DU most definitely took root!
20 years ago I believe we had more of a justice system for all. I suggest many people you and Spetnaz are referring to as bad or evil (or whatever) are simply losing faith in a legal system like we see in LA or San Fran or New York.
When the government only calls hate crime 90% of the time for 1 color, or let’s thieves go who steal under $900 (or whatever San Fran was doing) or let older teens go with a slap on the wrist for punching out elderly people in the knockout game they become despondent and desperate.
Desperate people don’t think or talk in measured ways. IMO.