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[ SECRET POST #6498 ]

⌈ Secret Post #6498 ⌋

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You can remove any crime from society, but only if you first commit it against a random, possibly innocent, person.

What are you removing?

If you remove theft for example, does that mean that a starving child can no longer steal a loaf of bread to eat to survive?

I guess, but really how often does that happen?

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thewakokid - 2024-10-20 19:52 (UTC) - Expand

Animal abuse. Because having those things done on one human would be totally worth it to make sure no animals were ever abused again.

But if the crime is animal abuse, you have to abuse that person's animal.

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(Anonymous) - 2024-10-20 19:32 (UTC) - Expand

No, you'd have to do it to the animal. If you did it to a person that'd only get rid of assault.

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thewakokid - 2024-10-20 19:48 (UTC) - Expand

I had a friend that used to like to ask edgy type of questions like this. Like "you can cure Insert Painful Deadly Incurable Disease but you have to murder your parents to do it, what do you do?" and I never really got the point of it. Like, it's just an unnecessarily emotionally painful thought exercise. But then we talked about it a bit and he didn't get that it actually genuinely upset me, like it would plummet my mood and bother me for awhile, because he didn't work like that. He genuinely thought they were fun thought experiments. We lost touch over the years just because that's how life goes, but I always think of him fondly when these type of threads come up.

Well, this one is a Cost / benefit question that reveals a little something about the person. Like, my first thought is "Littering" Low benefit, but even lower cost. But you never know when the true ~altruist~ is gonna come out of the woodwork with "r*pe"

I’m glad it’s a fond reminder.

And glad to hear that I’m not the only one who really does get a bit upset by engaging with those hypotheticals.

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(Anonymous) - 2024-10-20 20:11 (UTC) - Expand

Failure to maintain visible buoys on lobster traps.

I'm getting rid of a hazard to small boat navigation, and also having a tasty lobster dinner. And the RNLI will be rescuing someone in a small boat offshore who got their prop tangled in a lobster trap line, but they like that sort of shout apparently.

So, like you'd intentionally put out a lobster trap without sufficiently visible buoys?

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thewakokid - 2024-10-20 19:46 (UTC) - Expand

The easiest/simplest with no real downside is probably fraud. Easy enough to grab a friend and promise them $1 if they invest 1c then never pay them back.

If that removes all fraud from the world, including by shady megacorps and politicans and governments who are now either obliged to follow through with promises they make or unable to make promises they don't intend to follow through on, sounds like a good trade.

See I was thinking Littering would be the easiest to do but for the maximum reward.

Fraud is an interesting idea tho... trouble is it has to be a random person.

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thewakokid - 2024-10-20 20:03 (UTC) - Expand

Yeah and if you drop $10 in front of them at the same time as you refuse them their promised $1 return on investment, maybe you can rid the world of litterbugs and fraud at the same time. Either you get your $10 back because they understand that sometimes investments don't work out, or they quietly pocket 10x what you promised them and keep quiet about it.

That's where my mind went as well. If I could trick one person into giving me their personal details, I might not even have to use them, and I'd get rid of scam phone calls forever!

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(Anonymous) - 2024-10-21 11:27 (UTC) - Expand

Ripping the tags off of mattresses obviously

So, like... you'd do it once and then it would be impossible for anyone else to do it?

That's fucking devious.

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(Anonymous) - 2024-10-21 02:29 (UTC) - Expand

Go away.

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thewakokid - 2024-10-20 20:32 (UTC) - Expand

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thewakokid - 2024-10-20 20:32 (UTC) - Expand

Realistically, it would depend on my ability to do harm to a random person. As great as getting rid of murder would be, I don't think I'd be capable of doing it, so stuff like that is out.

I think I could hit a random person once to get rid of all assault. I could try to make it up to the random person so they won't involve the police (apologising, pay some damages, etc.) and even if they do, the crime isn't that severe as to end with jail time or worse. And the victim can't retaliate with violence either, since all assault is now gone.

Well, well, look who's back!

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(Anonymous) - 2024-10-21 01:24 (UTC) - Expand

If I yell "hey baby, shake that ass!" at a passing rando, does that mean no more sexual harassment, or just no more catcalling?

I'd do it either way and then just be super apologetic, like "omg I'm so sorry I thought you were my cousin and we do this to each other all the time as a joke," etc etc, but no more sexual harassment is a way bigger win than no catcalling.

I'd only steal from a random person (swipe a pen or their spare change or whatever) if it meant stuff like wage and identity theft and human trafficking (theft of people and theft of the proceeds of their labor) were also wiped out. I've never been in a place in my life where I needed to steal to eat, but I wouldn't want to deprive people who would go hungry otherwise.

It would have to be one of the crimes that doesn't actually hurt anyone. I could never hurt someone intentionally like that. I like the idea you mentioned below of littering. All the other laws I can think of that don't involve anyone being hurt I don't actually think are bad things so I wouldn't feel the need to get rid of.

Maybe tax evasion. If me not paying the 87 dollars I owe meant that the ultra-rich that avoid it had to pay their share, I think I could live with the guilt.

Noise ordinances might be one the easiest, though.

Perjury might be an interesting one - if I'm caught after, you can tell exactly why I did it.

Haven't seen your name in ages, then you return to ask this?

Tax fraud!

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