…what do you think would happen in the US? Do you think the majority would still “live clean” doing what is moraly right, or do you think our nation would be in shambles after that 24 hour period?
I’m talking, everything goes. Nothing that happens in that 24 hour period, would ANYONE be accoutable for here on Earth.
What do YOU think would happen, what would YOU do?
Sincerly,
…Downhome…
Insufficient data for a [single specific] meaningful answer, I’m afraid.
Which 24 hours? Do we assume the world is no more prepared for it, socially, than it is right now?
Is everyone going to be aware in advance that the laws and ordinances are suspended? How long will everyone know in advance?
Do individuals, as individuals, have the option of simply recreating (or trying to recreate) the mechanisms of law enforcement in the process of doing their part of “anything goes”? Or is everyone free to do anything EXCEPT impose a governance of conduct on others?
Does the imposition of one’s will on another in and of itself constitute the imposition of a governance of conduct on others? In other words, if Joe the (current) Police Officer is prohibited from doing a “busman’s holiday” and enforcing the now-suspended laws, is Joe the (potential) Rapist prohibited from enforcing his own Law of Brute Strength and imposing his will on his intended victims?
Are anarchic planners allowed to distribute plans for other means of structuring a society, and to experiment with them, between the time of the announcement of the forthcoming suspension of the laws and ordinances and the suspension itself?
Remember the LA riot?
Imagine that across the country. I’m a law abiding citizen but hey, I could sure use the new 72" TV at Circuit City on the corner.
I think a majority of people would stay at home and hang out, but there would still be a sizeable number of people that would go out raiding and pillaging. Enough so that it wouldn’t matter. All major cities would be in some form of ruin. Chaos would reign supreme.
Many politicians would not survive that day. Most would presumably hire bodyguards, if they don’t have them already, but bodyguards can’t protect against every possible method of assassination.
errr… on further thought if it was just for one day most politicians would stay inside some secure facility. A lot of government buildings might get bombed, anyway.
Does this apply to military rules as well? If so a good bit of equipment would “dissapear”.
The “haves” would stay home and protect.
The “have-nots” would go get.
Not a pretty picture.
I don’t know about anyone else but I would take myself and my family off to the most secluded place I could find, dig down four hundred feet and build a small room where we could all hide, with a built-in oxygen supply to avoid the need for giveaway ventilation shafts. We would stay there until after the party, and emerge only if our nuclear-conflict-detecting computers hadn’t spotted anything dodgy going on. Because frankly, if all laws are lifted, I’m expecting virtually every country to play move-the-border. If there IS a nuclear strike, I ain’t comin’ up. Not until I have proof that Kevin Costner has sorted it all out.
I guess that’s just the kind of trusting, adventurous guy I am.
Well, we’d start with a nice list of friends. Get about 10 lbs of flank steaks marinading. A huge trash can filled with ice, water, wine and beer. Some fresh cut corn on the cob. My traditional fruit salad. Perhaps some mozzarella twists in garlic and olive oil to start, along with the fixings for bruscetta.
Sit, eat dinner, watch the sun go down, enjoy great conversation on the deck. Then, party until we all fade away slowly…
Why else would that day be any different? What, I’m going to abandon 39 years of morality and sense of self? Fine. Abolish the laws. I’m not gonna go running through the streets of the village with a machete in one hand and a gun in the other. I’ll stay at home, spend the day with friends, watch the news, and discover prayer. 
Cartooniverse
Kill my Mother.
I would hide under my bed with all my stuffed animals.
i would get shit drunk, stoned and probably tgrip acid, but only in the last eight hours, before that i would get a
f-16 and someone to fly it and go to colorado, and to austrailia to meet up with some “friends” and probably end up breaking a few laws with recards to legal sexuall activites with these friends, then come home, eleminate the people on my list, get my freinds together, get a few body gaurds to make sure we dont hurt ourselves and partake of the afore mentioned drinkin drug benge.
Sorry, but this situation calls for no one less than Harrison Ford…
-Rav
And even students vote for actors,
Then they tell you it’s a safer world
-Joe Jackson