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There’s quite a few behaviors that are illegal because they are associated with stuff people are concerned about even if they aren’t inherently harmful. Public
by Retric 3y ago
There’s quite a few behaviors that are illegal because they are associated with stuff people are concerned about even if they aren’t inherently harmful.
Public intoxication for example was criminalized long before Minority Report was a thing.
We didn’t make photographing critical infrastructure illegal, but people were pushing that narrative and it could have easily happened.
- integral_1699 3y agoI would partially push back on public intoxication not being harmful. It does intimidate other people trying to use the same public space.
- Retric 3y agoIs the presence of alcohol or is it the way some people behave while drunk? Because that behavior could be illegal without being drunk also being illegal. Put another way, people get arrested sitting quietly because they are drunk without any obvious outward signs of being drunk so it’s is hardly intimidating.
- whythre 3y agoThat’s because a drunk persons’s decision making is inherently impaired. They might be sitting quietly now. The vast majority of criminal violence (domestic or otherwise) occurs in conjunction with impaired faculties and alcohol is often the cause.
- Retric 3y agoA classic pre-crime argument.
- csomar 3y agoYou can measure that beyond any biases, however. This, on the hand, is up to the guy in charge. Anyone can be affected by this if they happen to be on the bad side of the people in charge.
- mikrotikker 3y agoIt may not be illegal but I dare you to go take photos of a port.