earning more than 360,000 usd per year.
And how will Californians and New Yorkers be able to afford a new home next year?
Housing costs will go down when demand drops due to enough people being imprisoned
That sounds reasonable.
Chewing tobacco
Attempting to mislead a person for financial gain.
Yeah they should make fraud illegal
Fraud, I believe, has a narrower definition than most of us think.
So basically all ads… I agree
Haha. Yep. I was going for subtle. :) I think ads that didn’t mislead wouldn’t be so bad. I do want to know about interesting new products… I just want to be able to trust the info. And choose when I see them.
Yeah, the choosing when to see them is the most difficult part. I don’t see that happening in the near future.
Don’t forget car dealerships!
That’s already illegal? It used to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obtaining_pecuniary_advantage_by_deception and is now just fraud.
I believe, though I could be wrong, that for a person to be penalized for fraud, someone has to have suffer damages.
I think it should be illegal to simply mislead for financial gain. Think ads that intentionally exaggerate thier products, influencers who will claim to love some product and use it all the time, when they have never even tried it. And media that puts such a heavy spin on things that in court they claim that no reasonable person would have believed what they are saying as a defense.
Advertising.
Killing animals
I was asked to feed an outdoor cat in my neighborhood. I did. Several small animals have likely died because I helped one feel more comfortable. Do I need to go to prison.
I exist in USA where habitat is constantly destroyed for profit. There is no way for me to not be a part of this system. Should I be executed?
I fixed some damage to my home where there were carpenter ants digging in the wood. Not only did several likely die, but I also ruined their home. Shackle me to a trailer hitch.
I should have been more specific. The point isn’t about what predators do in the wild, or about accidental, unavoidable deaths. It’s about the violence that is intentional, done on a massive scale, and most importantly, completely unnecessary. It all boils down to choice. A lion in the wild isn’t having a moral debate about its next meal; it’s just surviving. We, on the other hand, have tons of other options. Nobody’s talking about punishing someone for accidentally stepping on a bug. It’s about questioning the entire systems that treat living, feeling beings like they’re just products for our pleasure or convenience, when it’s totally avoidable.
Put all wild meat eating animals in prison!
Humans have the reasoning and introspection required to make the choice to not do unnecessary harm to animals, a lion does not.
*most humans have
It’s like humor, most people have it but not all people have it 😉
Oops! I was trying to make a point but got called out on it so now it’s just a joke! 🤡
Not my fault if you thought someone really thinks this:
Put all wild meat eating animals in prison!
Guess some people really neads the /s tag lol
Are you stupid or pretending to be?
Lol, projection at it’s finest.
And don’t get started on hyenas. Fuckers.
Because animals are usually subject to human laws?
If you are going through a place with a drive through that wraps around the building and you pull up far enough to block the exit so that it fucks up the works and an employee has to come out and direct traffic to unfuck it you should have your license revoked. Clearly you don’t have the situational awareness to be operating a motor vehicle.
Maybe you shouldn’t be chomping at the bit to kidnap people and lock them in cages.
fr prison should only even be considered if a person is a violent threat to those around them
*champing
But yes, agreed
“Chomp” is a variant of “champ”, in some regions even having the same pronunciation. They are both valid and acceptable variants for the phrase.
Noise making that disrupts other people’s tranquility.
Disturbing the peace isn’t illegal?
The people using speaker on transit, or blasting external speakers while hiking through otherwise perfectly good woods… are disturbing the peace, sure. So are the college kids two floors up when they’re pre-gaming at 9pm. But the police would not take any of these calls seriously, unless the OP rule/law were in place.
I’ll defend people playing music through speakers in the woods…. It’s the fucking woods. It’s away from civilization. You’ll be away from them shortly. It’s fiiiiine. It’s not like you’re captive on public transportation.
Boo. That shit carries so far. I go to the woods to get away from human bullshit. I’d much prefer the wind through the land with a birdsong accompaniment.
Yes! The amount of people who feel entitled to blast noise is too damn high! I was gonna comment on playing noise n speakers in public settings, but I’ll happily pile on here.
Leaf blowers and my neighbor’s power washer that emits a high pitched tone like a mosquito ringtone the whole time he runs it. It pierces my brain.
Not using your blinkers on a roundabout
Circumcising a child.
Kind of pathetic how we still have to solve the issue of cutting up baby dicks as ritual.
Egypt’s worse; they still cut off the clits of preteen girls as ritual.
Jews and Egyptians aren’t even trying to hide it. They do it specifically to reduce the sensitivity of sexual organs.
Christians are the useful idiots (as always) who have been duped into thinking it’s for ‘medical’ or ‘aesthetic’ purposes. In all honesty, Christians cut up the dicks of their kids because the dad’s dick was cut up for him and he doesn’t want to admit there’s something wrong with it.
Christians don’t do it. Americans do it. And they did it for the same explicit reason as the others thanks to the psycho weirdo Kellogg of the cereal fame to try to prevent masturbation, and sexual pleasure.
You’re gonna love learning about a certain priestly duty at said events. Clue: it involves the priest’s mouth. 🤢
Oh, I’m sorry, downvoters. I misspoke. It’s “rabbi”, not “priest”. Oops.
And sometimes the priest gives the child herpes when performing the Briss
Maybe in some cultures, but that’s not the norm. It was always just the doctor and his assistant. Honestly, it’s distressing to observe, so no parents or anyone else were allowed to be in the room. *I was a medical assistant for a gyno who did circumcisions during mom’s postpartum check up.
Oofda.
Lying as a politician.
Driving a vehicle that can be heard over several suburan blocks
tobacco should be treated at least as bad as weed
Prohibitionists make me sick. If only we could prohibit them from existing.
there’s more than one way for what i described: regulate tobacco like weed or regulate weed like tobacco, and having it ssomewhere in between of your choice
Religion
All you have to do is make it illegal to expose or proselytize religion to anyone under 22, and religion would likely die out within 2-3 generations.
When you have been raised as a rationalist and know, at a fundamental level, the bullshit detection system called the Scientific Method, you need to have some pretty powerful mental illness in play to willingly grasp at religion.
Agreed. And yet there are plenty of Gen Z and Gen Alpha religous zealots.
Brainwashing gets increasingly easy the younger the subject is. Children, in particular, have an evolutionary need to automatically trust adults and what adults tell them, as they don’t yet have the cognitive tools to handle the world around them. Trusting adults have been baked into that part of childhood development because, historically speaking, it gave a distinct evolutionary advantage. Those children that listened to adults had a much stronger probability of surviving until adulthood.
It’s why religions so strongly proselytize the young – get them young, get them for life.
I wonder what the most effective way to de-radicalize these individuals is.
The Socratic Method tends to be effective in many cases so long as the other person remains open to reason and logic, especially the requirement for evidence.
How does that contradict what OP said? Gen alpha is literally all kids and teens, even.
Willful violations of the Constitution. Right now, elected officials can brazenly disregard the Constitution and the worst that happens is they are told not to do that again in the future, pretty please.
It was willful violation of the Constitution that led to the end of slavery and suffrage for women. Not always a bad thing.
