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The only things I can think of that I'd do would be:
--Walk my dogs and not pick up the poop
--Burn a pile of leaves and branches in my back yard rather than bag them and tie them the way the trash Nazis in my town require us to. Of course I'd do it safely and not allow the fire to spread.
--Carry my handgun in NJ (I live in PA, but NJ doesn't allow it). Since it'll be a whole day of lots of crime & mayhem, if I had to go to work (in NJ) I'd have to be carrying in order to protect myself.
--Buy raw-milk artisan cheese right out in the open instead of "underground"
Jeez, just come live in the country, none of those things are illegal here! I refuse to live anywhere I have to pick up dog poop - that's just strange and weird.
Except I don't know if carrying handguns is illegal or legal here - I don't own a gun because if I had one, and:
If it were legal - I'd pick off all of the people who ride motorcycles, 4-wheelers and snowmobiles in the woods by my house. But someone else would have to come pick up the bodies or bury them; eeeew, I couldn't do that.
Hell yeah, I'll shoplift and take whatever I've always coveted.
I'll probably get involved in some shoddy insider trading deals myself.
Serious crimes that actually physically hurt people? I couldn't bring myself to do it, no matter how much they've wronged me. Maybe I'll hire a hitman..
Oh, I thought about another thing I would do. It would require a lot of preparation and help so I would need some fellow lawbreakers with me. I would go around and take animals from people who are abusing or neglecting them in areas where Animal Control can't or won't do anything. Did you know that in some areas it's legal to keep dogs in boxes as long as the box is big enough for the dog to stand up and turn around? I have no moral qualms about taking a dog being treated like that. None at all. Actually, if I had the chance I'd probably take the dog even if it wasn't legal that day.
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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.
Hell yeah. Let's see I'd jack a Camaro, head down to Southern VA to get some revenge on some folks, then I'd acquire a nice sum of money by any means necessary. Also, I'd blaze up on some weed.
Oh, I thought about another thing I would do. It would require a lot of preparation and help so I would need some fellow lawbreakers with me. I would go around and take animals from people who are abusing or neglecting them in areas where Animal Control can't or won't do anything. Did you know that in some areas it's legal to keep dogs in boxes as long as the box is big enough for the dog to stand up and turn around? I have no moral qualms about taking a dog being treated like that. None at all. Actually, if I had the chance I'd probably take the dog even if it wasn't legal that day.
Oh wow, that's a good one! I'd take it a step even further and lock the owners in a crate (and of course come back and unlock them the next day).
Bingo I want to exp. the advantages Goldman Sachs and Congress have.
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