Why Do Leaders Choose Crime To Control The World?

Through utopia, More provided the leaders of his time with keen insight to help improve his world by claiming that leaders should not allow crime to increase by not preventing it before it happens, should not use poverty to control his people, and should not take his people’s pleasure from them especially when they have a lot less to control. First, leaders should not allow crime to increase by preventing it before it happens because it shows that he’s not a good leader to his people by not protecting them. In Utopia, Sir Thomas More wrote “ Let him curb crime, and by his wise conduct prevent it rather than allow it to increase, only to punish it subsequently.” More meant that a good leader a should avoid crime before it happens, instead of punishment after it happens. …show more content…
By preventing it ahead of time, it helps improve the safety of the public. Sir Thomas More was someone who knew the consequences of not preventing a crime sooner than later. Second, leaders should not use poverty to control his people because poverty drives people to commit crime because the government doesn’t give the people it’s needs. In Utopia, Sir Thomas more wrote “certainly it is wrong to think that the poverty of the people is a safeguard of public peace.” More meant that a leader should not use poverty as a mean to control his people. When people are dependent on their government for their own welfare and existence it could lead to more crime, those who are poor are more likely to commit crime, they have nothing to lose, more to gain. More’s point was that poverty was a big problem because poverty has been linked with crime because poverty leads people to make desperate decisions especially when the government is not helping them, by keeping them poor, it is a threat to the safety of the public because