mugging

Generally mugging means you are physically assaulted and then your property is forcibly taken from you.

Thought experiment: Bram moves to Washington DC, where the air is cleaner than in Delhi, but is instead shot in a mugging gone wrong and permanently confined to a wheelchair.

The current state of higher education (with major emphasis on mugging, apart from minute number of good colleges) is killing many more geniuses.

And even for things like muggings/theft, a lot of the time the crime is an impulsive act, and there's also evidence that you can teach people to avoid making that impulsive jump to mugging/etc.

I'm imagining IRS agents wearing pocket protectors going around mugging people at gunpoint to collect taxes.

Don't think I've ever been witness to a mugging, or a store getting held up, or a car getting stolen.

But would you want to use an assault rifle in a mugging?

One might see an uptick in breaking-and-entering robberies, but it'd have to be a significant uptick to offset the loss from mugging being less profitable.

The theft of wealth accumulation via property values and rent is far greater than the petty crimes of burglary and mugging that justify the police state.

Home invasions, car jacking, mugging, kidnapping are everyday occurrences here.

Demanding someone's money by force (e.g mugging) is immoral.

How does silencing political speech prevent rape and mugging?

Your broad brush strokes regarding "Ivies" and lawyers are just mugging for stereotypes.

I would imagine that your typical story of being mugged or having your picket fence demolished (what does it take for a mugging to count as violent crime?) would be far less likely to arouse feelings of "this is so terrible, how can we possibly allow encryption on iPhones if people doing this will get to walk free because of it".

:) Putting aside the obvious, though, let's extend that 99.99% of "everyday circumstances" into what we'd call "highly unusual circumstances." A bar fight, for instance, or a mugging at knifepoint, or worse.

(Oh, and this is not the real Pascal's Mugging; that's much harder to deal with.

(Or Pascal's Mugging, more precisely, which was coined by Yudkowsky.) What if I tell you that unless you give me a dollar, I'm going to torture you for 50 years?