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No. As it is there are several things that are legal that I don't do because I am morally opposed and it goes against my character. Character is what you do when no one is looking, even if it's legal.
The existence of many laws has nothing to do with morality.
Yes, I'd commit arson: I'd burn up all the junk my in-laws have on their rural property, including a derelict RV and a large shed full of old junk. OH BOY would I love to see it going up in flames!
Then I'd steal a few dogs from people who neglect them.
The problem is that everything is legal for that one day, so if you steal a car you are fine that day, but what about the next? It is still stolen by you. If you rob a bank that money is still missing the next day and must be accounted for. The question should probably be if you could commit a crime and know that you would never be caught, would you, and what would you do? Having crimes legal for a day only makes it ok legally that day, after that there will be a billion people responsible for everything that was done by them the day before. It would create mass chaos.
Say smoking crack is perfectly legal one day, then the next day it's not, you can't get someone into trouble for committing what is now a crime when it wasn't the day before.
I believe this was the background to the premise of a movie, The Purge, that came out this year. I didn't see the movie, but it's interesting to consider how society would react to a policy like that.
Personally, I can't see myself robbing a store or stabbing my ex boyfriend even if their were no legal repercussions. Laws are only created for the relatively few individuals who don't have the sense or principles to otherwise behave appropriately with the rest of society, and those individuals are the kind of people who'll go ahead and break the laws anyway.
Or maybe it'd work like a riot, where a few people behaving chaotically cause everyone else to behave chaotically in response.
Anyway, can see yourself ever doing something that's typically outlawed if it was temporarily legal? I mean, maybe if we still lived in the days of Prohibition I'd take the opportunity to get plastered with my friends, but that's about the extent of it for me.
That would depend upon whether or not all crime was both legal AND moral for that day. I wouldn't do anything if God would still hold me accountable for it even if the American justice system wouldn't.
If I were totally void of every last smidgeon of accountability for one day, I can think of some presently illegal and immoral stuff I would do for the betterment of mankind. Of course I'm not going to say what it is, because Big Brother is always watching.
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