So it sounds like individualist ethics then, just with the cultural surround taken into account in how the numbers affect that individual’s perception of the crime? Something like that?
I thought you were saying the ethical value of the individual act was a function of purely the number of times it was happening in an area.
Kinda like how “we have record amounts of crack smoking so let’s punish crack smoking harder” is an example of what I mean by “individualist ethics becoming collectivist ethics on account of specific numerical thresholds”.