AN ALTERNATIVE VIEW ON LAW AND DISORDER?

kernow · 12-10-2005, 12:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Alex

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Prostitution is legal already. What is prohibited is soliciting: advertising those services.

I didn't know that! Must be very difficult to set up business if you can't advertise. I'm amazed the EU haven't stepped in under a human rights banner? :wink:

Alex McKee · 12-10-2005, 12:21 AM

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Originally Posted by kernow

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Originally Posted by Alex

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Prostitution is legal already. What is prohibited is soliciting: advertising those services.

I didn't know that! Must be very difficult to set up business if you can't advertise. I'm amazed the EU haven't stepped in under a human rights banner? :wink:

Yes it's not very widely known. An obscurity in fact. Remeber that women are arrested for Soliciting.

John Carter · 12-10-2005, 01:19 AM

Deterrent through superior punishment. Yep.

Aim: A society where grannies can go for a walk at 2 am if they want to, with no worries other than maybe slipping over. A society where you're 100% sure that even if you forget to lock your door your stuff will still be there when you get back.

New class of crime: Crimes against personal security (burglary, mugging, theft from private areas*, peeing in the wine you hand out to a customer you don't like).

New class of conviction: Beyond all doubt (caught red handed or 100% evidence).

Punishment: 60 years in solitary. No time off for good behaviour. Edited highlights of the perps slowly going mad just after Ant and Dec's slot on a Saturday night.

Result: A few extra people in chokey. Mucho reduced crime.

Job done.

(* I see theft from private areas as much more intrusive and worrying than theft from public areas - i.e. burglary is much more upsetting to the victim than the theft of a Mars Bar from a shop is to the shop owner).

Harrism · 18-10-2005, 06:30 AM

Let a thief steal until enough is enough then let him go INTO phpbb_prison and make it so unrewarding that he won't want to steal when he comes back out again. He didn't get to do anything. Everything he had to do.

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12-10-2005, 01:19 AM	#13 (permalink)
John Carter Uber Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: On Sabbatical Posts: 5,110	Deterrent through superior punishment. Yep. Aim: A society where grannies can go for a walk at 2 am if they want to, with no worries other than maybe slipping over. A society where you're 100% sure that even if you forget to lock your door your stuff will still be there when you get back. New class of crime: Crimes against personal security (burglary, mugging, theft from private areas, peeing in the wine you hand out to a customer you don't like). New class of conviction: Beyond all* doubt (caught red handed or 100% evidence). Punishment: 60 years in solitary. No time off for good behaviour. Edited highlights of the perps slowly going mad just after Ant and Dec's slot on a Saturday night. Result: A few extra people in chokey. Mucho reduced crime. Job done. (* I see theft from private areas as much more intrusive and worrying than theft from public areas - i.e. burglary is much more upsetting to the victim than the theft of a Mars Bar from a shop is to the shop owner).

18-10-2005, 06:30 AM	#14 (permalink)
Harrism Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Posts: 113	Let a thief steal until enough is enough then let him go INTO phpbb_prison and make it so unrewarding that he won't want to steal when he comes back out again. He didn't get to do anything. Everything he had to do.