Starting with the least serious.
This is structured like a game, but it’s actually a debate. Please add a crime to the list, reorder the list as you see fit, and re-post it.
I will start.
Jaywalking
Murder
Jaywalking
Theft
Murder
ETA: What about gradations of crimes? Like, shoplifting a candybar versus embezzling millions? Or killing a person in the heat of the moment versus calculatedly killing lots of people?
Jaywalking
Theft
Stranger Rape
Murder
Jaywalking
Theft
Stranger Rape
Date Rape
Murder
Drug possession (enough for personal use only)
Jaywalking
Theft
Stranger Rape
Date Rape
Murder
Is jaywalking really a crime?
Tresspassing
Theft
DUI
Assault
Kidnapping (real kidnapping. NOT parents who take off with their own kids due to custody battles.)
DUI resulting in injury
Treason not resulting in death
DUI resulting in death
Rape
Murder
Treason resulting in death
I got a ticket back in '91 that cost me $65. Or it would have, if I’d ever paid it.
Treason preventing people from voting or falsifying results
Drug possession (enough for personal use only)
Jaywalking
Theft
Stranger Rape
Date Rape
Murder
Not following the rules in the OP
Not following the rules in the OP
Jaywalking
Theft
Drug possession (enough for personal use only)
Date Rape
Stranger Rape
Murder
Treason
What’s your reasoning behind making drug possession worse than theft?
At least he corrected IMHO the order of rape.
You can get a ticket for a civil infraction. I’m not really sure if it qualifies as a “crime”. Maybe it does; I’m asking.
Edit: How is date rape worse than stranger rape?
Depends on which definition of “crime” you use.
In this case, following the rules in the OP makes it a game. We’re in the debating forum.
Moderator’s Note: What exactly is the debate here? It looks more like a poll than anything else.
Debating is still possible, as subsequent posts have shown, but adding one crime at a time makes focused discussion more likely, IMHO. But I was mostly just teasing you; that really wasn’t meant to go on the list!
Not following the rules in the OP
littering
Jaywalking
Theft
Drug possession (enough for personal use only)
Date Rape
Stranger Rape
Murder
Treason
typo
I had to think about it, because it depends, obviously, on the drug and the theft. Having a marajuana cigarette obviously isn’t worse than grand theft auto. But considering that a lot of drugs are addictive, which means that someone arrested for drug possession is likely to reoffend, that it isn’t uncommon for drug addicts to steal to afford their drugs, and that drug use has a higher social cost than theft (in the harm that drug users do to themselves, their family/friends/associates, and communities, as well as the violence associated with the drug trade), it makes sense to me to rank drug possession higher than theft.
Drug possession (enough for personal use only)
Not following the rules in the OP
littering
Jaywalking
Theft
Battery
Date Rape
Stranger Rape
Murder
Treason
(Obviously, I don’t consider owning (not using) drugs to be bad at all. Crimes incited by drug addiction are, of course, a separate issue.)