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XxHavanaHoneyxX t1_j1ixj20 wrote

It’s isn’t. They might be lying to you but in the very least you have seen their face. Difference with online is that there’s an opportunity to screen convicted fraudsters, murders, violent offenders, stalkers and rapists. It won’t catch potential criminals for sure. But it’s something.

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XxHavanaHoneyxX t1_j1h05po wrote

They run criminal record checks for people applying to work with children. This isn’t really any different. Meet some completely stranger, often for drinks, on an app is extremely risky. Most of the time it’s fine but you are extremely vulnerable of the person you are meeting has bad intentions. If they can filter out people known to have previously had bad intentions that isn’t a bad thing.

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XxHavanaHoneyxX t1_iy92ple wrote

The black market for illegal booze and cigarettes is in the billions. It’s not that people are buying it from illegal dealers. It’s that they make their way on to legit shelves or venues and people buy them without knowing. That could be stolen, smuggled in without paying duty, or counterfeit.

Basically levies or artificially raised prices placed on anything makes the lucrative to criminals. Same goes for designer clothes, handbags, razor blades, phones, trainers, anything really. In order to reduce the criminal element really you need to make it not very profitable. Criminals don’t tend to sell carrots because they’re basically worthless. Taxing it isn’t going to remove crime. It will require continued police enforcement.

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