Timeline for What would happen if you staged or hoaxed the commission of a crime?
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| Jul 29, 2022 at 6:36 | comment | added | The_Sympathizer | @Tiger Guy: I suspect further argumentation with you will not be fruitful, and you are entitled to suspect likewise. Thanks. | |
| Jul 29, 2022 at 5:27 | comment | added | Tiger Guy | @The_Sympathizer, I disagree. Someone trying to game the law deserves what they get. It isn't written law, but it's the law of the streets: don't start nothing, won't be nothing. | |
| Jul 28, 2022 at 21:45 | comment | added | The_Sympathizer | @Tiger Guy: I'd be inclined agree with your factual conclusions, but wishing for a technically improper application of the law to suit your appetite for vengeance/talion, instead of wishing for new law (i.e. saying "it's not per se illegal but imo it should be" instead of "let's hope so"), is to undermine the circumscription of power that the rule-of-law ideal constitutes and so is baby steps on the long road to dictatorship. Much better to have their "petard" break while "hoisting" than to have a dictatorship I think. | |
| Jul 28, 2022 at 21:27 | vote | accept | The_Sympathizer | ||
| Jul 28, 2022 at 20:40 | comment | added | phoog | "What would happen if you staged or hoaxed the commission of a crime?" It surely depends on the crime. | |
| Jul 28, 2022 at 17:13 | answer | added | Davislor | timeline score: 3 | |
| Jul 28, 2022 at 14:21 | comment | added | Tiger Guy | "injustices of unequal bargaining power," no this is known as being hoisted by your own petard. As to the possibility of actual conviction, let's hope so. | |
| Jul 28, 2022 at 11:20 | comment | added | Lag | I don't see the relevance of "injustices of unequal bargaining power." The hoaxer set out to convince people of the commission of a theft and subsequently fails to unconvince them. If the court is persuaded beyond reasonable doubt the hoaxer committed the theft, why wouldn't the hoaxer be convicted? The court is not psychic. | |
| Jul 28, 2022 at 7:34 | history | asked | The_Sympathizer | CC BY-SA 4.0 |