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Let’s remember that there is no such thing as a victimless crime.
Let’s not. Many crimes are victimless, from begging to assisted suicide. If Sainsbury’s sells me a case of San Miguel at 09.55 on a Sunday, they’re breaking the law. And the victim is????
Many laws which make harmless behaviour illegal are simply based on opinions about morality, and petty, small-minded, religiously informed opinions at that.
Some on here are so quick to moralise about a footballer’s past and question his present, while cheerleading for some of the biggest political criminals around.
Do you remember the Eddie Murphy film; Trading Places.
Many ‘beggars’ have homes and indeed cars that they own!Assisted Suicide is legal in some countries – we’ve all heard of Dignitas?
“including Austria, Belgium, Canada, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, parts of the United States and all six states of Australia.
The constitutional courts of Colombia, Germany and Italy legalized assisted suicide, but their governments have not legislated or regulated the practice yet.”
It’ll be legal in the UK in the not so distant future.
UTI
‘Many beggars have homes and cars’
Well, yes, I saw one near the station recently, there he was, bent double on his knees, with his plastic cup in supplication and with a small scribbled notepaper, pleading for a cup of coffee. I was immediately suspicious. I watched and waited, and soon he sprang to his feet and walked sprightly to his new Ferrari parked nearby. I flagged down a taxi, and followed him to his Georgian mansion in Scotter. He jumped out, carefully carrying the plastic cup, half full of brown shrapnel, and pulled out his top of the range mobile phone to de-activate his burglar alarm. Through the window, I could see a vast flat-screen tv, and numerous consumer durables of the highest standard, with another car – a capacious tourer – parked in the driveway! For that is the truth of how beggars in Scunthorpe live today.
(As seen in the Daily Mail)
The secretly wealthy beggar has been a trope put about by the authorities since the middle-ages, created to restrain the Samaritan’s hand and encourage victims to hide their poverty and shame.
Point is, that in many places begging is illegal but victimless.
As for assisted dying, it is indeed legal in many enlightened countries. But not here, yet. Again, it’s a victimless crime. There are loads of ‘em.
You seem to be wavering like Indecisive Dave…