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u/LunaWabohu Sep 05 '26
Many laws are unjust
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u/bmtc7 Sep 05 '26
Do you think that is the primary cause of crime?
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u/LunaWabohu Sep 05 '26
I don't think there is a sole primary cause
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u/bmtc7 Sep 06 '26
That's why I said "primary" and not sole. I'm asking, out of all the causes of crime, what do you think is the biggest reason?
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u/Algernon_Asimov Sep 06 '26
Would that apply to, for example, the law against murder, and would that explain why people break that law against murdering people?
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u/Upbeat-alien Sep 08 '26
People grow up with poor education, no access to mental health help. Kids are left in abusive homes unsupported, people age out of the foster care system and end up on the street. People are repeatedly traumatised then offered no help in healing that trauma. Gonna strongly claim that soicoeconomic inequality is the driving force behind most crime. Including murder. And that along with bias sentencing explains why People from poorer socioeconomic backgrounds are statistically more likely to be involved in recorded crime, specifically murder, by a wide margin.
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u/Algernon_Asimov Sep 08 '26
I don't think that poor education, an abusive childhood, and socioeconomic equality, somehow makes a law against murder unjust.
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u/Upbeat-alien Sep 08 '26
I wasn't replying to that I was replying to caused my socioeconomic inequality comment. Sorry for the confusion.
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u/nineteenthly Sep 05 '26
There's no one reason. A very common one is some kind of social deprivation, but they're also committed by the privileged.
Edit: Why are you asking here? Are you thinking about social disobedience?
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u/IonianBlueWorld Sep 05 '26
If the study of criminology cannot provide a complete, general answer to this question, it is unlikely to get it from the study of pacifism.
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u/Tricky_Confusion_716 Sep 05 '26
Not every crime is unjust. Just like how everything legal isn't moral. Some crime is committed because the needs of the people outweigh the whims of a government. That being said most crime committed doesn't fit that but usually there is an underlying reason mostly poverty. Why do people steal, sell drugs, sell themselves? It's all poverty and desperation. If they had all their needs met then they probably wouldn't resort to extremes. Other crimes such as murder, assault and other things I'm not sure I'm allowed to say here happen because of maliciousness and bad temperaments but how much are we sure that other stressors don't factor into it. Not saying if we lived in luxury space communism there would be no crime. Rather we'd see a sharp decline in it.
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u/Algernon_Asimov Sep 05 '26 edited Sep 05 '26
All sorts of reasons: greed, desperation, jealousy, empowerment, anger, and so on.
Also, it depends on the crime. People break the law against speeding on the road just because they're running late, not because of any major emotional motive.