What Keeps You Out Of Prison?
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phreakwars
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Hmm I'm gonna have to call 48 hours in the box for lying..
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phreakwars
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365 days in the box for saying the most stupid, chest thumping, comment this year.
Get real.
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RoyalOrleans
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Ditto.
You have to be the dumbest ************ ever to post around here.
This is kind of like me too, except I think the original question/post is intended for "everyone gets ****** and snaps once in a while, what if an extreme situation happens, like your friend goes ******* apeshit and tries to kill you and you're ****** at him too."
"Just don't break the law" keeps you from doing all that? I'm merely curious.
eddo
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well in that case, it is more of a "don't get caught" type of thing.
Self control is an amazing thing. Sure I get upset at people, but never to the point of wanting to do actual physical harm to them, or their possessions. and yeah, that self control goes farther than just "not breaking the law" but having that moral leading (which is basically what laws are) to go by and understand does, in fact, keep me from breaking the law.
Most of the laws make sense. Their reason is clear- whether it be safety, maintaining order, or just the betterment of society- so why break them?
Yeah, self control is amazing.. Too bad many people don't have it..
To answer this, though:
Sometimes the will to commit a crime for whatever the reason is outweighs the fear of getting sent to prison or receiving a death penalty.
Sometimes the criminals are just ******* demented.
Sometimes the criminals are in great poverty and need food/money, so they steal, etc.
Usually, the criminals commit something without the intention of getting caught.
This is what I have seen so far, probably missed a couple.
Too bad many people don't have it..To answer this, though:
I'm not exactly sure, probably for many reasons.
Sometimes the will to commit a crime for whatever the reason is outweighs the fear of getting sent to prison or receiving a death penalty.
Sometimes the criminals are just ******* demented.
Sometimes the criminals are in great poverty and need food/money, so they steal, etc.
Usually, the criminals commit something without the intention of getting caught.
This is what I have seen so far, probably missed a couple.
Jhony5
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Money can keep you out of prison as well. Fame is also a repellent for justice i.e. raping children and being a pop-star cough cough Micheal Jackson cough.
I've committed so many crimes in my life. From class c misdemeanors to class b felonies. Stupid **** that I'd like to attribute to my environment at the time. Never been arrested. **** I never even got a speeding ticket. Was it my intelligence? My prowess and cunning? Nahhh man, all luck. Dumb luck as it were. I say dumb luck because, well I was doing dumb ****. Hard to say that one could be smart while doing something stupid. Breaking into a home when you have no idea if anyone is there, well ya thats stupid. Breaking into a home when you know theres nobody there, thats still ******* stupid. Like the temperature, stupidity comes in many degrees. But stupid is stupid.
As for spur of the moment crimes of passion. As Eddo put it, self-control.
If you came home early from work, and caught your wife ****** on yer buddy, ya you're probably going to react. But whether one admits it or not, if you break out all devil and kill somebody, you made the choice to do so. The choice to lose all self-control. Murder is not an involuntary reaction. Its not a knee-jerk. Its a conscious decision to let go of consequence as it gives way to retribution.
As I type this, somewhere in the world a fella is sitting in prison serving 20 to life because he wasn't gonna lose face to the guy that cut him off in traffic. Rude gestures gave way to insults which elevated toward threats. Bravado and machismo turns to fighting, which ends in gunfire. One man dead and another didn't get home from work that day to see the new episode of "24". No sir, hes got his hand in the back pocket of his "daddy" being pulled around cell-block 9, often being traded off for a carton of smokes.
Jhony5
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I have to agree with most of what Nazz said. Many laws do not in any way whatsoever contribute to the betterment of society. One could show that locking a man up for 6 months, subsequently ruining his life, over a few pot plants or some other victimless crime, degrades our society.
Many laws aren't actually intended to better our society. They are meant to push a moral code, to be enforced by law. Setting a standard by which all the good little robots can fall in line and adopt as their own.
I have a friend named Dave that got busted while hanging out at a small get together about 3 years ago. He was about 29 years old at the time. Was married with two children. He worked as a plumber and had just bought a home. Well he and three other friends of mine were all smoking and playing poker on a Friday night. The fella that owned the house let his dog outside to do his business. Well, they were all high and having fun so he forgot to let the dog back in. Apparently it had been barking non-stop for about 2 hours and they didn't hear because of the music and other ambient noises. The police came over in response to a noise complaint. They smelled pot and rushed right on in getting everyone on the floor.
Well my buddy Dave had a two half-ounce bags of weed on him that he had bought earlier and he had just cashed his check and had about $700 cash on him.
He was charged and convicted of possession with the intent to distribute narcotics for profit. As well the charge was a felony because his ounce of weed was actually 32 grams, about 4 grams over 1 ounce. Which is the barrier between felony and misdemeanor possession. They served a warrant at his house and scared the living **** outta his wife and kids. Confiscated a box of sandwich bags, rolling papers and some cash in a sock drawer. His truck was actually sold at an auction, because they took possession of it and he would have had to ******* BUY HIS OWN TRUCK BACK for about $5,000 dollars.
He lost his job. He lost his house. He lost his truck. He spent 10 months in county and returned to society a broken man.
I'm talking about a really nice guy that never hurt anyone. Who benefited from his imprisonment?
Now I could tell this same story to some people and they would say he deserved what he got because he choose to break the law. Words of a ******* pig. A conformist with no spine.
Victimless crimes should never ever ******* not ever result in the imprisonment of Americans. Everyday it happens.
Many laws aren't actually intended to better our society. They are meant to push a moral code, to be enforced by law. Setting a standard by which all the good little robots can fall in line and adopt as their own.
I have a friend named Dave that got busted while hanging out at a small get together about 3 years ago. He was about 29 years old at the time. Was married with two children. He worked as a plumber and had just bought a home. Well he and three other friends of mine were all smoking and playing poker on a Friday night. The fella that owned the house let his dog outside to do his business. Well, they were all high and having fun so he forgot to let the dog back in. Apparently it had been barking non-stop for about 2 hours and they didn't hear because of the music and other ambient noises. The police came over in response to a noise complaint. They smelled pot and rushed right on in getting everyone on the floor.
Well my buddy Dave had a two half-ounce bags of weed on him that he had bought earlier and he had just cashed his check and had about $700 cash on him.
He was charged and convicted of possession with the intent to distribute narcotics for profit. As well the charge was a felony because his ounce of weed was actually 32 grams, about 4 grams over 1 ounce. Which is the barrier between felony and misdemeanor possession. They served a warrant at his house and scared the living **** outta his wife and kids. Confiscated a box of sandwich bags, rolling papers and some cash in a sock drawer. His truck was actually sold at an auction, because they took possession of it and he would have had to ******* BUY HIS OWN TRUCK BACK for about $5,000 dollars.
He lost his job. He lost his house. He lost his truck. He spent 10 months in county and returned to society a broken man.
I'm talking about a really nice guy that never hurt anyone. Who benefited from his imprisonment?
Now I could tell this same story to some people and they would say he deserved what he got because he choose to break the law. Words of a ******* pig. A conformist with no spine.
Victimless crimes should never ever ******* not ever result in the imprisonment of Americans. Everyday it happens.
IF I go and buy drugs, I KNOW the potential consequences...everyone does, just because the outcome of being caught can be potentially ****** up, like it was with your friend, we ALL (unless you're retarded) know what can happen...drugs, cops, charges, court, jail...ain't a good look on your resume and you have a family and a business to think about?.
Two half ounce bags ON HIM?. That's "supply". If you're THAT keen on smoking pot, move to where it's decriminalized...it should be that way EVERYWHERE, that'll get rid of all the **** that comes with it, like exactly what you described...but right now it's criminal activity, we all know it, and we all know the potential consequences.
But how do you define "victimless" crime?...