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Drinking is legal, driving is legal, so it should be legal to combine them. trabant00, professor emeritus of mental gymnastics. Plz give money for study and pap
by trabant00 3y ago
Drinking is legal, driving is legal, so it should be legal to combine them. trabant00, professor emeritus of mental gymnastics. Plz give money for study and paper.
There's plenty of things that are legal except if done in a certain way, at a certain time, with certain persons, circumstances, etc. In fact I would argue most things are legal in a limited scope than things that are legal in any circumstance.
And in the case of blackmail there's not just the two, unless you ignore the mother freaking THREAT. You are threatening somebody, that alone makes them a victim.
- OscarCunningham 3y agoThe thing is that in other cases you are allowed to threaten with legal actions. For example if I have permission to build on some land that would block your view, then I can ask you to pay to prevent me from doing this.
- trabant00 3y agoYou missed the entire part about context. Threatening with legal action does not make a victim, while threatening with something illegal like blackmail does. In your example you aren't asking for money not to hurt them, like with blackmail. You are asking for money to give up your legal right to do something. Intent also counts in law.
- OscarCunningham 3y agoBlackmail isn't threatening with something illegal. You have a legal right to reveal embarrassing information about someone.
- trabant00 3y ago> You have a legal right to reveal embarrassing information about someone Yes, but you don't have the right to threaten to do it for extortion. Again, context matters. If you still don't get it I give up.