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Originally Posted by Boerseun
Can it be fraud to sell stolen goods to a fellow thief, and then not produce the goods after receiving the cash?
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Here's the thing.
I like your idea. I think it uses their own predilections against them. It takes a law enforcement area with little funds and boosts it's finances directly from the people they're trying to stop.
It's a huge incentive to work harder to get these guys, because that brings in more money, and it's a self-reinforcing cycle... more bad guys, more money, even more bad guys, even more money... until finally you run out of money because you've caught them all... which is a good thing.
Here's the schtick...
If the laws don't protect EVERYONE equally, then they are meaningless and are no longer laws.
Even if the circumvention of said law is to take child molesters or kiddie porn aficianados off of the street, and even if the circumvention of said law improves our ability to enforce these moral rules and restrictions and to make society better... the laws (even if it's just for fraud) must apply to all citizens the same way or they mean nothing.
I don't like slippery slopes, so I'll stop skiing now.
