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Posted: 12/14/2016 12:32:03 PM EST
I don't get it. Why is there a need for the existence of punishable crimes that have no victim of that crime? How does carrying a weapon with no permit become a crime? For that matter, how does using drugs in your own home become a crime? Why is gambling among consenting adults illegal? Help me understand.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:34:08 PM EST
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You were not put upon this earth to "get it".
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:35:01 PM EST
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I don't get it. Why is there a need for the existence of punishable crimes that have no victim of that crime? How does carrying a weapon with no permit become a crime? For that matter, how does using drugs in your own home become a crime? Help me understand.
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this is easy..

to get citizens to behave in ways that society desires and to prevent citizens from doing things that society finds distasteful. also to provide some level of control over certain segments of society to insure conformance to standards.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:36:20 PM EST
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I don't get it. Why is there a need for the existence of punishable crimes that have no victim of that crime? How does carrying a weapon with no permit become a crime? For that matter, how does using drugs in your own home become a crime? Help me understand.
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It hinges on what is deemed an acceptable risk.

Some of these crimes do not add up, you are right.

Other apparently victimless crimes have wider implications and impacts, and are subject to legal restriction.

Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:36:48 PM EST
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There's always a victim.


Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:38:21 PM EST
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In a lot of cases it's one group imposing their morality on the rest of the population.

I agree with some of them and disagree with most of them.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:39:04 PM EST
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Look.....prostitution is illegal because if it weren't, marriage would be a thing of the past.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:39:45 PM EST
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Because there's only one avenue other people have to boss you around without risk of getting punched in the nose for their trouble.   Government.   You may not have noticed, but humans LOVE to boss eachother around.

Any legislator who proposes more than 2 new laws (or amendments to existing laws) in their career should be sterilized.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:40:14 PM EST
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Are there still marriages in Nevada?
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:40:26 PM EST
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It's legal to sell stuff.

It's legal to fuck.

Why is it illegal to sell a good fuck?
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:41:29 PM EST
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It's legal to sell stuff.

It's legal to fuck.

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Pornography isn't generally illegal.   You can pay someone to fuck... so long as you're just paying them to "act" in a film.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:42:35 PM EST
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Lawyers, posing as legislators, pass 'laws' to give the DA a more effective toolbox in case someone does something they don't approve of.

Hence, why we have way too many fucking 'laws'.

Its a protection racket to line their pockets at our expense.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:42:39 PM EST
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To generate revenue
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:42:50 PM EST
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Pornography isn't generally illegal.   You can pay someone to fuck... so long as you're just paying them to "act" in a film.
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So, Patrick Bateman was doing it right then!
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:44:04 PM EST
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Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:44:18 PM EST
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You were not put upon this earth to "get it".
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I know right!  Thankfully we have people like you to unquestionably enforce arbitrary rules...since I'm sure you know what's best for us.  I feel safer already.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:46:31 PM EST
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Because the gov't. hasn't found an effective way to collect a tax on it.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:48:36 PM EST
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It hinges on what is deemed an acceptable risk.

Some of these crimes do not add up, you are right.

Other apparently victimless crimes have wider implications and impacts, and are subject to legal restriction.
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I don't get it. Why is there a need for the existence of punishable crimes that have no victim of that crime? How does carrying a weapon with no permit become a crime? For that matter, how does using drugs in your own home become a crime? Help me understand.



It hinges on what is deemed an acceptable risk.

Some of these crimes do not add up, you are right.

Other apparently victimless crimes have wider implications and impacts, and are subject to legal restriction.


Generally, this.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:50:03 PM EST
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How would government keep growing more powerful if they stop making laws that restrict people?
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:50:04 PM EST
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politicians pandering to the public that they're 'tough on crime'
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:52:00 PM EST
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lol
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:52:48 PM EST
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Government, acting as the proxy for "society," is the default victim, and deems itself deserving of restitution. This recompense is coerced from the perceived perpetrator at the threat of imprisonment.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 12:59:28 PM EST
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Government is a function of society. Both are weakened by poor lawmaking.  

Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:04:59 PM EST
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Government is a function of society. Both are weakened by poor lawmaking.  
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Yeah.  Tell us more about how Brexit is going.  Big government operates independently of societal viewpoints.   The "people" are the losers in this game.  They give, in return for their generosity, even more is taken.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:06:35 PM EST
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Law makers gonna law make.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:11:27 PM EST
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Prostitution is legal in

New Zealand
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
CANADA
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Netherlands
Japan


I am assuming none of these countries have marriages.
BECAUSE SEX IS NOT THE ONLY REASON FOR MARRIAGE
have you hear of love? guess not
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:13:06 PM EST
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Prostitution is legal in

New Zealand
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
CANADA
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Netherlands
Japan


I am assuming none of these countries have marriages
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Ironically (or not, depending on your viewpoint) outside of Brazil none of these countries are reproducing with native populations at a positive rate.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:14:27 PM EST
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Ironically (or not, depending on your viewpoint) outside of Brazil none of these countries are reproducing with native populations at a positive rate.
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Prostitution is legal in

New Zealand
Australia
Austria
Belgium
Brazil
CANADA
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Netherlands
Japan


I am assuming none of these countries have marriages


Ironically (or not, depending on your viewpoint) outside of Brazil none of these countries are reproducing with native populations at a positive rate.

native birthrate decline as income and standard of living increase
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:15:02 PM EST
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People get married in Nevada and prostitution is legal there.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:17:57 PM EST
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I don't get it. Why is there a need for the existence of punishable crimes that have no victim of that crime? How does carrying a weapon with no permit become a crime? For that matter, how does using drugs in your own home become a crime? Why is gambling among consenting adults illegal? Help me understand.
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I think in some crimes where the "state" is the victim it's about revenue. But in other cases it's due to the other crimes that the "victimless" crimes lead to. Such as drug use. Drug use especially opiates, methamphetamine, and pills lead to large amount of crimes with legit victims. Theft is a huge crime committed by a meth head or heroin junkie. A lot of times the only way to catch and punish a thief is to catch them with felony drugs since they move the stolen property so fast you can't find it or locating enough evidence to secure a conviction by a jury trial is nearly impossible.

I hate most victimless crimes but I have to remember that in the case of drugs the victimless crime might be the only crime we can do anything about knowing they are a burglary and theft suspect.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:19:59 PM EST
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uhhhh do you even revenue generation bro? The "state" becomes the victim and you pay them for your "Crimes" via fines, and fees and *IF* you victimless crime is bad enough to get you jail time the federal government pays the state via additional funding and grants. It is all revenue generation, just not for you
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:20:04 PM EST
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Government is a function of society. Both are weakened by poor lawmaking.  
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Government is a function of society. Both are weakened by poor lawmaking.  


you are wasting your time

this forum doesn't grok nuance
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:26:56 PM EST
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Control and revenue generation
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:28:01 PM EST
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Because all societies are based on a moral code, an agreed upon set of values and mores which are often memorialized and enforced by law because that is what THEY WANT. When not enough people continue to share that moral code, the civilization either ends or it evolves into something else.

We are currently "evolving" from the moral code agreed upon largely at the founding of our nation- and in large measure responsible for it's ascendancy, into "something else". Remains to be seen whether that is a good or bad thing.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:31:52 PM EST
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Because all societies are based on a moral code, an agreed upon set of values and mores which are often memorialized and enforced by law because that is what THEY WANT. When not enough people continue to share that moral code, the civilization either ends or it evolves into something else.

We are currently "evolving" from the moral code agreed upon largely at the founding of our nation- and in large measure responsible for it's ascendancy, into "something else". Remains to be seen whether that is a good or bad thing.
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This is a logical answer.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:34:37 PM EST
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Wasn't there a Jefferson quote about laws only being valid if there was a real victim?
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:35:39 PM EST
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this is easy..

to get citizens to behave in ways that the Government elite desires and to prevent citizens from doing things that the Government elite finds distasteful. also to provide some level of control over certain segments of society to insure conformance to what the Government elite wants.
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FIFY
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:41:10 PM EST
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Because all societies are based on a moral code, an agreed upon set of values and mores which are often memorialized and enforced by law because that is what THEY WANT. When not enough people continue to share that moral code, the civilization either ends or it evolves into something else.

We are currently "evolving" from the moral code agreed upon largely at the founding of our nation- and in large measure responsible for it's ascendancy, into "something else". Remains to be seen whether that is a good or bad thing.
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Maybe we're evolving back to what the founders intended. To say the founders would have jumped on-board the last 100 years of nonsense is quite a stretch.  "I say good man, that fuel can there, is that preban? I'll need to see your papers."  
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:42:31 PM EST
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In a lot of cases it's one group imposing their morality on the rest of the population.

I agree with some of them and disagree with most of them.
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This.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:45:00 PM EST
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Yes. Because there are guys out there that can't even get laid i a whorehouse with a stack of $100 bills in their hand.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:47:45 PM EST
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They will say that the state is a "victim".  Nevermind how you confront your accuser in that case.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:50:30 PM EST
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Many of those laws exist because the "man" (big government) wants his cut...
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:51:30 PM EST
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Wasn't there a Jefferson quote about laws only being valid if there was a real victim?
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Jefferson proposed a law in Virginia making sodomy punishable by castration.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:51:52 PM EST
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Fucked up morality and role of the state.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 1:56:19 PM EST
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Gambling among consenting adults is illegal only because the state is not getting a chance to collect money somehow.






Link Posted: 12/14/2016 2:04:56 PM EST
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Because government needs to be involved in everything in order to justify its continued growth.
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The majority of "moral" laws and "victimless crimes" legislation stems from an era of much smaller government.

In fact, as these laws pass by the wayside, our government has become larger and more intrusive.

But the 8th grade understanding of Heinlein is appreciated.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 2:14:32 PM EST
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Maybe we're evolving back to what the founders intended. To say the founders would have jumped on-board the last 100 years of nonsense is quite a stretch.  "I say good man, that fuel can there, is that preban? I'll need to see your papers."  
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Yea, except we seem to be missing the "God" part....and NOBODY who has studied the least amount of history- outside of  public grade school, can dispute that that was in very large measure a part of the original underpinning of this nations founding.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 2:16:11 PM EST
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It's a way to make the revenue machine propel itself.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 2:25:22 PM EST
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Yea, except we seem to be missing the "God" part....and NOBODY who has studied the least amount of history- outside of  public grade school, can dispute that that was in very large measure a part of the original underpinning of this nations founding.
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How do you figure that?  There's an all out assault on Christianity these days.  If it didn't matter it wouldn't even get addressed.  Never mind Trump just about started preaching at rallies.  Stop listening to the media and the resident atheists here.
Link Posted: 12/14/2016 2:25:28 PM EST
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I don't get it. Why is there a need for the existence of punishable crimes that have no victim of that crime? How does carrying a weapon with no permit become a crime? For that matter, how does using drugs in your own home become a crime? Why is gambling among consenting adults illegal? Help me understand.
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Because "victimless" isn't really an accurate description.

The user who is smoking crack in the privacy of his own home may still be harming others due to his addition, whether it's he's stealing from his neighbor to buy his drugs, neglecting his kids, or calling in sick all the time at work.

Very little that we do really has zero impact on someone else.  That's the nature of living in a social system.

Having said all that, it's still a valid question to ask as to whether a certain act or behavior has sufficient impact on others so as to trigger legitimate governmental restriction. But simply trying to classify an act as "victimless" and then using that to argue your point is worthless.
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