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LetsDiscuss: Culprit or the Victim??????
The purpose of laws, I think you’d agree, is to protect the rights of individuals, and to punish those who infringe them. Every law that exists should serve these ends. But there is a category of laws, not just in the US but in India and everywhere else, that punish what are called “victimless crimes.” They are used to prosecute people who have harmed no one. They come about because of the universal human tendency to impose our preferences on others. And there is nothing we try to impose as much as our morality... Morals Our dubious sense of morality is responsible for all these stupid laws. In India, for example, section 377 of the Indian Penal Code effectively penalizes homosexuality – a law that is said to have led to policemen running extortion rackets across the country. Even free speech can sometimes be a victimless crime, as a variety of laws make giving offense, especially on religious grounds, a crime. (Section 295 (a) of the IPC is the worst of these.) Morality’s a damn good thing, but only when it is rooted in respecting the rights of others. Laws that infringe on the rights of people to live their lives as they please are deeply immoral – and they exist even in countries that pay lip service to freedom. Deborah Jean Palfrey’s death, for example, was nothing less than a travesty, caused by an invasive law that had no business to exist. DC Madam had done nothing wrong...
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rashmi, i agree with u somewhat on indvl freedom... but then i dont think so legalizing drugs and prostitution will be the greatest solutions...
as pre me it is somewhat controlled as there is a fear in the minds of the ppl that is holding them but when it becomes legal then all the ppl will go for it to just try it once and then many of them will get addicted to it....