• Supervivens@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Okay but what’s the point of 1 then if it must be all three as just a 3 point and 2 point automatically add up to 5?

    • Willie@kbin.social
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      8 months ago

      Let’s look at it this way.

      Condition 1 is to disqualify anyone with 5 or more crime points.

      Condition 2 is to disqualify anyone who has committed any crime that is worth 3 crime points.

      Condition 3 is to disqualify anyone who has committed a crime worth 2 points, but only if it is a violent crime.

      So basically, they intend for a violent crime worth 2 points to disqualify you, and they intend for any 3 point crime to disqualify you as well. And they intend for having 5 points to disqualify you.

      Worrying about the value of added points is missing the point of the wording of the entire set of rules. Especially if there exist crimes worth 1 crime point. There’s a whole range of crimes you can commit and still qualify.

      You could commit:

      Up to 4 crimes worth 1 point each.
      Up to 2 crimes worth 1 point each, as well as one non-violent crime worth 2 points.
      And up to 2 non-violent crime worth 2 points each.

      The point of condition 1 is to put a cap on the amount of crimes worth 1 or 2 points you can commit.

      I hope this helped you understand it the way I understand it.

    • Zaktor
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      8 months ago

      This really rests very heavily on the authors of the law not just fucking up and including a useless clause because they didn’t do math. They would have to be diligent enough that they could never make any errors in content, but not diligent enough to recognize their wording was ambiguous.