What do you think should be a crime?

[Playful Pony]

I would make these stupid things illegal, under penalty of getting your hat stomped on! I don't have anything against hats in general, just this particular type, and with the GODDAMNED STICKER ON IT! AAAGH! When I see someone wearing one, I get this almost uncontrollable urge to run over and peel off the sticker...

Yes, I am a petty, hateful woman.

 

[Faladorian]

Have you recently been cheated on by your wife/husband? If so, I am very sorry, but to make it a crime is a terrible idea as the act of having sex with another women/man/hermaphrodite beside the one the you said a few words to is not harmful to anyone.

wait wait...

WHAT?!?

Cheating on your spouse is not harmful to anyone? I can think of one person... um, your spouse.

Also, music piracy should be better enforced. I'm not saying we should fine individuals thousands of dollars or "censor the internet," but if a website is stealing your shit, there should be some recourse. (And there might be, I don't really know.) I just hate that no one else on the planet pays for music anymore. That's stupid and should be stopped.

People don't pay for music because music is ridiculously overpriced. I've never bought a CD for retail price and I never plan to. It's outrageous.

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Let's see...

The charges for assaulting somebody should be exponential depending on how many people were assisting you. So if you decide to beat somebody up who's alone and you bring 5 friends, you should go to jail for 30 years, as opposed to far far less if you brought 4, 3, 2, 1, or none.

 

[SacremPyrobolum]

Have you recently been cheated on by your wife/husband? If so, I am very sorry, but to make it a crime is a terrible idea as the act of having sex with another women/man/hermaphrodite beside the one the you said a few words to is not harmful to anyone.

You're either a sociopath or have never been in a relationship before if that's what you think.

The point is that the government should stay out of you bedroom. The act of sleeping with someone else does not endanger or destroy you freedoms, which is what the law is suppose to prevent in the first place.

Granted, adultery usually leads to divorce and a splitting of resources but it is not written anywhere that that course has to be taken. I know some people who are married but allow each other to sleep with other occasionally. Under a new law against it, they could not.

 

[C. Cain]

OT: Aside from the obvious (rape, murder, arson etc.), I think I'd outlaw alcohol, but legalise weed. My stoner friend is always telling me how much better off the world would be if it were that way round, and I'd love the opportunity to either A. Make the world slightly nicer and a bit less violent late at night or B. Laugh in my stoner friend's face as the world falls to hell.

It's easy to produce alcohol. Almost trivially so.
Outlawing it would only serve to make things worse - as evidenced by abysmal failure that was prohibition in the US. Thus option B seems far more likely than option A.

I concur with the idea of legalisation of weed per se, however.

 

[Stasisesque]

I would make these stupid things illegal, under penalty of getting your hat stomped on! I don't have anything against hats in general, just this particular type, and with the GODDAMNED STICKER ON IT! AAAGH! When I see someone wearing one, I get this almost uncontrollable urge to run over and peel off the sticker...

Yes, I am a petty, hateful woman.

The hat on the left is covered in purple walruses. How can you hate anything so inherently cute? Sure they're murderous walruses, but... walruses.

 

[Exterminas]

The senseless destruction of a book should be a crime.

 

[AngloDoom]

Shouting in the cinema for any reason but an emergency should be punishable by fine: equal in British Pounds to the amount of decibels each shout was, per shout.

 

[Bertylicious]

There ought to be a prison for guys who think they can make some happiness in this life.

 

[Ganath]

Trolling should be punishable by having a man in a panda suit break into your house, right before your eyes, and trash your home while you watch. The panda man will not speak or do anything else. He will just trash your home and leave.

Yes, it's been done in a commercial (sort off). But it would still be funny. Not for the troll, but the rest of us, of course.

 

[purf]

Walking slowly in front of me in public.
Just move out the way! Don't walk in threes because I cannot slip by!

Oh. I like this idea. But only to be punished with a hefty fine.
Jailing all those snails would make this a ghost town.

 

[EeveeElectro]

Bad parenting.
I suppose there is laws against it, but they don't do anything until after something has happened to the child.
I'm sick to death of seeing parents (mainly mothers for some odd reason) scream at their child, "Shut the fuck up you stupid little ****!/Shut up or else you won't get anything!/I'll smash your teeth in if you dare talk back to me!/Get it through your thick skull that I don't want to see you!" then giving them energy drinks or cola when they're not even a year old and smacking them for not even doing anything.
Always in public. It's disgusting. At least give them a fucking warning, emotional abuse is just as bad as physical. They wonder why their kids act like cunts and think it has nothing to do with them being terrible parents. Don't have children if you can't deal with them.

My city is vile. Absolutely vile. More needs to be done to stop these fuckers from keeping children.

 

[Angie7F]

I'm in favor of implementing a licensing system for people who want to become parents. As for outright outlawing something, I would make it a crime to walk side by side in groups of 3 or more. Seriously, fuck people who do that. If you're with a BF/GF/Wife/Husband etc that's fine but if you're with 5 of your douche-bag friends, walking side-by-side, you should be fined at the very least.

Agree with you 1000%.
however for me, i would not allow any cases of walking side by side in groups of 3 or more.

Also screeching kids.
If a parent passes the exams and get a licenses to have a kid, they should have similar rules to a driver's license and be fined etc according to any trouble their kids cause.

 

[Phisi]

I think Adultery should not be illegal at all. It would be like not telling your partner you are getting an abortion. If you want to do it it's your choice as it's your body and not theirs. I think it makes you a bit of a dick if you don't tell someone who has an invested emotional interest in you most of the time though I would consider many things exceptions such as your partner would announce to the whole town that you had an abortion in my analogy. Other people do not have any rights over your body and what you do with it. If it were the other way around then you would get into a very horrible world where spousal rape and child labour would be questionably legal.

As for things I think illegal? Rudeness. A fine though. Just for those people who like to shout at tellers about why their coupon is valid or something like that.

 

[xDarc]

Homeowners Associations foreclosing on a paid off home for 800$ in unpaid dues and that 300K home at auction for 3,500 to a property management company.

In American, why is the ever allowed to happen? I work for a bank and there are so many federal regulations when it comes to lending it makes my head spin... but Homeowners Associations can put people out of their home for very petty and arbitrary reasons.

 

[Signa]

Nothing. We have too many crimes as it is. The more the government wants to lock us down, the worse we are in the long run.

What needs changing is the punishments for these crimes. Weed shouldn't be illegal. As mentioned DUI should be treated like attempted murder, and stealing millions from millions of people like Enron should be punished more than it was. Perhaps death. No, seriously, I hear China has a guide-line that if you cause enough damage to a person, one that falls near their projected lifetime earnings, can earn you the death penalty. It may be harsh in some situations, but that's what judges are meant for.

 

[Mr F.]

Tax Evasion.

If you go into a grocery store with a gun, steal a few hundred pounds and get caught you get 20 years to life.

If you go into a business with a smile and steal hundreds of millions (In many cases, Billions) from the government through quasi legal tax havens? You get elected.

Considering the nature of the economic crisis right now I think the UK should declare financial crimes on that scale to be treasonous. If we are at "war" with the world economy (Such terms have been used) then surely those who avoid paying tax are "Deserters"? And if they are, surely they should face the same punishment deserters faced in other wars?

By that I mean a bullet through the fucking head.

 

[Aaron Foltz]

Of all the rules there are for parents who want to adopt a child, there are no rules for those parents that can just pop a kid out an neglect it. Sure there's child services but you don't have to prove income and mental stability to bring a life into the world.

 

[maninahat]

What should be a crime is ultra high interest loans.

If you ever suffer the misfortune of having to watch daytime tv in the UK, you'll bear witness to a non-stop barrage of loan and debt ads, always offering the most ridiculous rates imaginable. I saw one that had an APR of 1730%. 1730%!

That should surely come under loan sharking, right? Someone needs to regulate this shit, because the kind of people who end up taking loans tend to be the kind of people too stupid to realise what the percentages mean in the first place. If only to protect these poor, desperate folk from themselves, I think these businesses should be banned outright. Fucking usurers.