[downtoliberalism]

I have never understood victimless crimes.

[Blood of Tyrants]

What do you mean? Do you not understand the concept or do you not understand why we have crimes against getting high in your living room and watching Sponge Bob Squarepants?

If it is the latter, they are put in place by people who want to control you and are happy pass laws and hire thugs to do it for them.

[Pessimist]

"I have never understood victimless crimes."

Me neither! As far as I'm concerned, if there's no victim, there's no crime.

Along those lines, I think drugs, gambling and prostitution should all be legalized. If people screw themselves over in their indulgence of any one of those, so be it. They should be free to do that. But they should also know that when they do, its nobody else's fault (or problem) but their's.

[MarkL]

I have never understood victimless crimes.

Actually, it often seems that the laws against "victimless crimes" actually create more "victims" than they proport to protect.

Mark