Protestation

What about the laws that protect people? Does driving faster than the speed limit or not wearing a seatbelt protect property?

It sounds like you've figured out the point while believing it contradicts.

I never said it contradicted. I said he was being disingenuous. He's implying that these are two different things, and that one is better than the other. It's like saying that your pantry doesn't hold ingredients for a PB&J, it only holds bread, peanut butter, and jelly.

Why do you think most crimes are property crimes?

Because the only other option, to my knowledge, is crime against another person directly, which is pretty well summed up with murder, assault, battery, slander, and libel. There's a lot of other shitty things a person can do when it comes to property, though.

Why do you think most crimes are property crimes? Because the law is only to protect property.

That's just blatantly untrue, all kinds of actions are criminalized that have nothing to do with property. My hot take is that most crime is property crime because that's the kind of crime that the perpetrator actually benefits from. If you steal something, you now have that thing. If you murder someone, you're not any better off than before (aside from whatever loot your victim might drop, which is generally not worth it).

Come on, dude.