we absolutely need Myspace!!
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| Author | Content |
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| tuxchick Feb 05, 2008 1:44 PM EDT |
Where else can we find so many high-quality pics of kids on spring break passed out drunk, lying in their own vomit and other fun body wastes? I mean come on, this is a national treasure! |
| gus3 Feb 05, 2008 8:58 PM EDT |
Of blackmail material... Time for a career change! |
| Bob_Robertson Feb 06, 2008 6:45 AM EDT |
Walter Block wrote a book called "Defending The Undefendable" in which he puts forth an excellent logical argument that, because blackmail uses no force or fraud, it isn't actually a crime. (Extortion, because it depends upon violence to back it up, is completely different.) |
| tuxchick Feb 06, 2008 8:27 AM EDT |
Hmm, I haven't read any of Block's work, but if he's saying that physical violence, or the threat of it, is a necessary basis for an act to be called a crime, then he's full of hooey. |
| gus3 Feb 06, 2008 8:55 AM EDT |
"I know what you did last summer..." If it was a crime ("...and I know where the body is"), then the blackmailer should be going to the police. Having material knowledge of a crime, without reporting it, is itself a crime. OTOH, if it wasn't a crime, but something that simply humiliates the blackmailed ("...during that party in Texas")... ??? Any lawyers in the house? |
| Bob_Robertson Feb 06, 2008 9:17 AM EDT |
> if he's saying that physical violence, or the threat of it, is a necessary basis for an act to be called a crime, then he's full of hooey. Naa, he's just talking about non-statute law. By statute, people can be arrested for what they do in their bedroom, in private, in complete consent. Such a law itself is the real crime. But I have to ask, unless there is harm done, how can there be a crime? Sadly, now we're off topic and terms of service. |
| tuxchick Feb 06, 2008 10:39 AM EDT |
Oh Bob, I can't tell if you're trolling or trying to be funny. You speak of logic, then derail your own arguments. I toast marshmallows in the flames of your wreckage. Here, have one, there's plenty to share! |
| NoDough Feb 06, 2008 11:08 AM EDT |
TC, It's just like you to wander around with a big bag of marshmallows looking for a wreck. |
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