Cite that the majority of pro-life posters in that thread said that abortion is murder? Your claim is false.
In fact, I don’t think ANY pro-life posters in that thread said abortion was murder.
$20? Heck, I can get em for $10! I just like the kind with most of their teeth intact…
Yes (sort of). Purchase and sale of obscene material is illegal; possession of that same material is not. If I order an obscene video from a distributor, and he mails it to me as I request, he can be prosecuted, but I cannot be. This is almost exactly parallel to a woman asking a doctor to perform an abortion, and the doctor being prosecuted for doing so, but not the woman.
Practicing various professions (e.g. law, medicine) without a license. If you hire me to cut out your appendix, and I do, I’ve committed at least 2 crimes. You haven’t committed any.
I can legally spank my child, even if he does not consent.
You can’t.
to paraphrase a documentary I saw a couple years back. “When you can jerk yourself off in two minutes with 30 of your friends watching, then you can be a porn star”
Many people are not up to the challenge of sexual performance with a roomful of people and a camera 2 inches from their ass. There is a saleable skill there.
Most of the posters wouldn’t say if it was murder, though they won’t say how premeditated killing of an innocent human being was somehow different. And I think the SD law that started this whole thing defines it as murder, though I could be mistaken.
Can you hire someone to spank your child?
Not so in the recent South Dakota law:
The intent is clear, and even a self-attempted abortion would therefore be exempt.
Is the crime “being male in a women’s locker room” or is the crime “trespassing against the wishes of the owner”? If it’s trespassing, the owner can make it a crime for me to enter the women’s locker room, too.
You can give school employees or paid caretakers permission to spank your child at their discretion. This being the case, I don’t see how it would be illegal to hire someone to perform a spanking, as long as it wasn’t for prurient purposes and didn’t rise to the level of abuse. I think it would be pointless, but it wouldn’t be illegal.
This is not accurate. Not every state allows this. In fact, it appears that most states do not.
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Very interesting. Some other situations occur to me.
A woman breaks into your house. That’s B&E. An hour later, once she’s on duty, she (a police officer) executes a valid search warrant there. That’s lawful.
The women’s locker room scenario illustrates how the law doesn’t always do what it’s meant to. A man who purposefully entered a women’s locker room might have done so out of prurient interest. Then, too, might a lesbian - but she has a right to be there, and the man doesn’t.
A juvenile who gives money to a man who’s on his way into a liquor store, and a fee (usually $5 or so) to buy a six-pack for the juvenile, will usually not be charged, if the scheme is detected. But the man will be (in Ohio, in cases I’ve seen) for contributing to the delinquency of a minor and/or for providing alcohol to an underage consumer.
Side note: reminds me of the scene in “American Grafitti” - and it turns out the helpful man is also staging a hold-up!