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No, I don't think being pickpocketed (or having my car stolen or whatever) is "equally as scary" as if my daughter were assaulted or kidnapped. I'd be ashamed to think they're equivalent, lest my daughter believe I view her as valuable as a hunk of steel or a wad of cash.
> Property crimes lead to a generally dangerous living area and people don't like to live in dangerous areas because it necessarily leads to more violent crime.
This is deeply incorrect. As has been repeated and cited over and over, violent crime in e.g. SF is not particularly high (lower than most other US cities), while its property crime rate is outrageously high.
Just because they're not emotionally equivalent doesn't mean that property crime isn't bad. SF has a massive issue regarding petty crime. It leads to a more dangerous city overall.
In sticking with the autism question - are you? OP has yet to state that "property crime isn't bad" yet you've commented repeatedly to imply that they have, among other things.
"Not as bad as" != "Not bad"
If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
It's extraordinarily hard to differentiate between trolls and non-trolls online anymore so I don't see what's wrong with asking that of someone.
If you want additional explanation, here are links to lots of it - not in the most convenient format to read, but it covers the essentials:
the burden is on the commenter to disambiguate their intent - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
we have to moderate by likely effects, not by intent - https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
internet psychiatric diagnosis is best avoided - https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&type=comment&dateRange=a...