Comments on: Do “Robberies Go Wrong”?

By: Lydia

Lydia — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:55:50 +0000

I think robbery has gone so wrong because the people who do robbery are using violence and that they are taking people property they should not because they would not like it if someone took there things!!!!

By: Sarah

Sarah — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:51:08 +0000

It is so wrong someone should make it stop!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: Rick Darby

Rick Darby — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:27:25 +0000

“Robbery gone wrong” is a pretty good marker for the moral obtuseness of the mainstream media, but my favorite stupid journalism phrase remains “senseless murder.” Our Dumb Reporters Club can’t fathom why killers don’t limit themselves to sensible murders.

By: Law Monkey

Law Monkey — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:10:22 +0000

Dont forget that robbery, a felony, was potentially punishable by death under early English common law. The reason is because it was understood that certain crimes, when undertaken, evidence a certain indifference to the possibility of grave harm or death that could happen to the victim. There is nothing such as a “robbery gone wrong”; the English had it right–when you rob somebody, you’re basically disregarding the possibility of grave injury or death to your victim. This is also why we have a felony-murder rule in the US.

By: Roach

Roach — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:43:26 +0000

Poverty doesn’t make people rob. Wealth doesn’t make them good. Good character sets the stage for $100K wealth, but people who make far less don’t induldge.

This was not chiefly a post about black crime, but rather about a peculiar phrase used by the media to deprive robbers in general, who happen to be 60% black in a society 12% black, of moral agency for their violence.

By: New Guy

New Guy — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:07:37 +0000

Please, no more racial reality for Resh. He’s sensitive and is unable to process the facts.

By: resh

resh — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 23:29:39 +0000

Roach-

I admire your flashes of brilliance. But this subcutaneous theme of yours-(spoken thru others) that blacks 1) have a badge-of-honor monopoly on violence and 2)overstate the mitigative circumstances of their seemingly-perpetual criminality-ought to be a thing to easily get beyond.

Armed robbery like most violent crime aint about race; it’s about money-specifically, not having any. Being broke and/or living in desperation takes moral agency from the realm of the noumenal conscientiousness into the colorless primordial divide. Hope you don’t get there.

Said otherwise, are there a horde of armed robbers emanating from the 100k circuit? I didnt think so.

If you demand and preach moral agency, then allow everyone to pass Go.