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Originally Posted by The Germanator
At my parents house we don't even lock our door. We're pretty out there in the country and I've really felt threatened. Sometimes if I spend the night there alone it is slightly nerve-wracking, but I think the front door doesn't even have a functional lock.
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My dad is the same way but he lives in the city, in a suburban neighborhood that is not exactly the highest class one around. I think we've had two or three bikes stolen in that neighborhood while I was growing up. His thought-process is that if someone really wants to get in then a lock is not going to stop them.
Which I think is stupid. Most petty criminals IMO probably usually only commit crimes of opportunity. For example, most people if they saw a laptop in the backseat of a locked car, probably wouldn't bother breaking the window to steal it. But what if the door were unlocked? Or, what if you left it in the bed of your truck? Now that person thinking about stealing it, even a person who wouldn't normally steal anything, has to make a stark decision between their desire for something and their conscience telling them what's right and wrong, instead of just making the decision for them by locking the car. You're just asking someone to take it. Kind of the same reason Napster (or its equivalent) was/is so popular.
As for me, I have nothing more than a couple locked doors and my hope for humanity protecting me and my home.