Atypicalicious t1_j8lxtrx wrote on February 15, 2023 at 7:29 AM

Reply to comment by You_Yew_Ewe in Once manufacturing moves almost entirely into space and the workers want drugs, gambling and prostitution and wanted criminals on Earth can escape to space, the solar system away from gravity wells will become largely lawless. Who will do the policing and how? by [deleted]

I don’t think you realize how much lawlessness exists even in the US. I live in San Francisco’s Tenderloin and even tho a block from a SFPD station, it’s fairly lawless. Drugs are sold openly, in the Mission prostitution is out of control, and deadly violence is a heartbeat away. Most housing projects are lawless. LA’s Skid Row is lawless. The American frontier in the mid to late 1800s was lawless. I shouldn’t have to explain this.

You_Yew_Ewe t1_j8lznxl wrote on February 15, 2023 at 7:54 AM

If you think that the situation in the Tenderloin or Skid Row is the typical state of things in the U.S. you either need to get out more or are not thinking very clearly.