What do you think should be a crime?
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Land ownership.
Think about it. We're born with everything we need to survive provided by nature - food growing on trees, a place to sleep, water to drink.....until it's taken away from us by a million suburban subdivisions and farmland allotments. Can't pick an apple off a tree to eat because someone else owns it, can't sleep because the ground you want to lie on is owned by someone. It's nuts.
Think about it. We're born with everything we need to survive provided by nature - food growing on trees, a place to sleep, water to drink.....until it's taken away from us by a million suburban subdivisions and farmland allotments. Can't pick an apple off a tree to eat because someone else owns it, can't sleep because the ground you want to lie on is owned by someone. It's nuts.
I saw a rather nice sign in front of a coffee shop last time I was in Austria, it basically saidFolkLikePanda said:
"Kaffee - 2?
Kaffee, bitte - 1.80?" ("Coffee, please")
Not sure the numbers were just like that but basically they gave you a discount for asking nicely. More businesses should adopt such approaches! (Or hey, instead of nice discount, go for a douche markup or something).
So while I would not make "being a douche" a crime, I would legislate that prices can be adjusted to a degree on the basis of the customer's attitude.
Posting pointless %&#¤ about yourself on Facebook.
If you feel that you need to tell people that you're going to do some cleaning, and you don't have a super-messy house or anything, then you're just posting stuff for the sake of posting. One pointless post shouldn't be illegal, but twenty is the limit and then you get fined one dollar. Big enough to be noticed, not big enough to discourage somebody who'd really want to, but that's okay because imagine talking about it later. Try telling people that you were prepared to pay a fine just so you could post meaningless junk about yourself.
If you feel that you need to tell people that you're going to do some cleaning, and you don't have a super-messy house or anything, then you're just posting stuff for the sake of posting. One pointless post shouldn't be illegal, but twenty is the limit and then you get fined one dollar. Big enough to be noticed, not big enough to discourage somebody who'd really want to, but that's okay because imagine talking about it later. Try telling people that you were prepared to pay a fine just so you could post meaningless junk about yourself.
Personally, driving a car without a muffler. Or trying to pretend that your Vauxhall Corsa is in any way fit to be a race car. Caught with an intentionally noisy car = 5 years disqualification from driving.
Yeah right, what he says is reasonable. Why tie yourself down to one partner for life? Marriage is ok and all but it sounds like imprisonment if you're not allowed to have some extramarital fun.Syzygy23 said:
Keep your hands off my land. I'm shutting out the rest of the world because I can't stand it, I don't want strangers here. Yet you're right that there's nowhere for vagrants and landless people to go. There should be at least commonly owned land where everyone is free to go and reside, and come and go as they please.Blood Brain Barrier said:
Exactly the same of course, it wouldn't be sexist.Wolverine18 said:
Chemical castration would work on either sex
Yup, thats sensationalism for you...cock and balls is just an amusing way to get what i was saying across...no need to be so pedanticWolverine18 said:
Nope i can't point you in the right direction but i'm pretty sure some people could find a way to do it...but since this a hypothetical what-if scenario i don't think it needs qualifying
I'm pretty sure some of Joseph Mengele's work might have valuable insights into the possibility.Wolverine18 said:
Anyway, here we are from Wikipedia:
'It has also been argued that, based on the Fourteenth Amendment, the procedure fails to guarantee equal protection - although the laws mandating the treatment do so without respect to gender, the actual effect of the procedure falls disproportionately upon men.[5] In the case of voluntary statutes, the ability to give informed consent is also an issue; in 1984, the U.S. state of Michigan's court of appeals held that mandating chemical castration as a condition of probation was unlawful, on the grounds that the drug medroxyprogesterone acetate had not yet gained acceptance as being safe and reliable and also due to the difficulty of obtaining informed consent under these circumstances.'
To fall disproportionately upon men there would have to be women aswell so there is my 30 second fact finding mission complete. It's by no means irrefutable but it is enough to base a hypothetical scenario on.
Also, are you a lawyer? I ask because you totally ignored the spirit of what i suggested to squabble over a single point that wasn't really the issue at all
I like this topic so far. Personally, what I think should be a punishable crime:
- Adultery: 10 years in a gulag, regardless of gender.
- Obesity: Sent to a work camp, regardless of age.
- Deadbeat parents: Chemical castration, regardless of gender.
- Religious zealotry: Death.
- Adultery: 10 years in a gulag, regardless of gender.
- Obesity: Sent to a work camp, regardless of age.
- Deadbeat parents: Chemical castration, regardless of gender.
- Religious zealotry: Death.
A loophole that has yet to be closed and is being exploited is not "Legal" in my eyes. Corporations are taxed to a certain level within, say, the United Kingdom. In my eyes taking all of the profit of your overseas corporation and paying it as a "Dividend" (Not-taxed) to one of your other companies based in, say, Luxembourg which immediately "Lends" (Inter business loan, not taxed) everything back to the company that earned everything, paying less then 1% tax instead of say, the (Huh, it is hard to get a fixed figure for the UK, it varies between 0-19% for small companies and has been as high as 52% for large companies in the past) then you end up with a hell of a lot of money being effectively stolen from the government.Wolverine18 said:
Comapanies like Virgin are responsible for stealing hundreds of billions away from the UK. In my eyes, this is fucking illegal. In the eyes of the majority, this should be stopped. But whatever, since it is not "Illegal" it is apparently totally legal.
I will keep using the word "Quasi" and keep stating that I think these loopholes should be closed and that those responsible should be fucking shot.
We would not have to cut the budget if we actually collected the tax that was owed.
Finally, as a socialist, I consider stealing money from the state to be a crime. To a point I believe that most private ownership it is a crime. But lets ignore all of that.
These people are stealing money. Stealing money is a crime.