Victimless Crimes

[capthowdy]

the american pharmacutical companies and the drugs they put out are far more dangerous and used on a wider level, don't you think that would be a more viable arguement?


but then again this thread isn't about drug laws. It's about victimless crimes, drug use is not a victimless crime...I know that first hand on many levels, so we agree there.


So my a victimless crime in my opinion would, yes and I say it agian, jaywalking

 

[Snowbear]

If the jaywalker steps in front of a car and gets hit, the victim is the driver whose car is likely damaged, whose insurance just went up and who has to live with injuring or possibly even killing someone.... I know first hand on many levels, so we agree here.

But this thread isn't about the legality of jaywalking

 

[Feathers in Hair]

Sorry Feathers, but suicide has victims.

You're right, and I apologize. I have no debate there about that in itself. I have a tendancy to empathize with people in such pain, but that does not mean that there aren't victims. (Especially the person who might be commiting it.) My sympathy for the people involved should not have swayed my argument, and I'm sorry.

 

[capthowdy]

If the jaywalker steps in front of a car and gets hit, the victim is the driver whose car is likely damaged, whose insurance just went up and who has to live with injuring or possibly even killing someone.... I know first hand on many levels, so we agree here.

But this thread isn't about the legality of jaywalking

hehehe, right on, yes it's true any crime brought up in this thread can have victims in the right circumstances.....so then what is a victimless crime?

 

[Dr. Nosophoros]

A crime is usually a crime because someone else said it was.

 

[Snowbear]

hehehe, right on, yes it's true any crime brought up in this thread can have victims in the right circumstances.....

I was wondering when someone would pick up on that

In addition, there can be victims even when no crime has been committed

....so then what is a victimless crime?

As pointed out, under the right (wrong?) circumstances, every "crime" can have a victim. But for many crimes, just 'cause a "crime" was commited, doesn't mean it resulted in a victim...