You could just act like a really upstanding person and not engage in activities that you might get in trouble for later. But of course, nobody is going to do that.
The moon is as dead as a doornail already. In a few million years, every human mining operation will be pounded to dust by space debris and the moon will look exactly the same as it always has.
The difference here is that you're not relying on catching the criminals and punishing them, you're letting them serve up their own punishment.
Jaywalking has the natural consequence of possibly being hit by a moving vehicle. Legal or not, stepping out onto I-405 during rush hour will make you a human pancake.
Assault has the risk of getting harmed yourself if your target is armed. Even if no cops are around punching a Krav Maga expert will not end well for you.
Speeding increases your chance of dying in an accident as well. You may go ten or twenty over the speed limit on an empty road, but roaring around at 150mph will end with your car wrapped around a tree.
But the point is, you'd have to be able to get your (possibly massive) gun collection to wherever you are in 24 hours. The cop two states over isn't going to go to the trouble of going to your house to look for your gun.
What if your gun is genuinely stolen while you are on vacation and you don't know about it within 24 hours? There are too many ways for your proposed law to have unjust consequences with a deadline that short.
I suspect people would rather own illegal guns than report their existence to the police at all if they are going to be charged with a felony either way.
You noticed, but are you going to do anything about it? Have you written to your congressperson yet? Staged a protest? Written an angry blog post about it even?
There's no point in noticing if you don't get off your arse and do something about it.
They build their structure and sugars through photosynthesis. To use those sugars and produce energy, they burn them using oxygen just like an animal does.
So to find a truly earthlike planet, won't they have to focus on a single star for more than a year in order to detect the planet passing the star more than once? What if the planet's orbit never aligns to eclipse the sun? What if there are two or three planets in very similar orbits?
So do we arrest them for cruelty to animals when they rape and murder things within our borders?
A dolphin can't have rights if it doesn't have any of the responsibilities that go with them...
A biology major probably could think it through if they were sat down and given a couple hours to reason it out. It's just that they are never forced to do so.
Since not one other slashdotter has conducted a ghost hunt in all probablility, I don't believe anything great will be lost to the world if this one does. He reports back to us about his findings, and in a few mere seconds of your time your beliefs about the non-existence of ghosts can be reinforced. What's to lose?
If he does find ghosts, you'll just discount him as another freak anyway, so the process of peer review will win out in the end even in a worst case scenario.
Also, don't pretend that you've never wasted a couple hours of your life doing something unproductive. If he wants to spend his free time playing ghostbusters and you want to spend your watching porn, that's a matter of personal preference.
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You could just act like a really upstanding person and not engage in activities that you might get in trouble for later. But of course, nobody is going to do that.
I think you've answered that one yourself. Everyone knows that artists don't have any money to steal.
Proof is only as reliable as the people who leak you the information.
Smells like... blood.
*six hours later*
It still smells like blood.
You don't see us worrying about messing up orbits and falling into the sun when we do mining here on earth, do you?
The moon is as dead as a doornail already. In a few million years, every human mining operation will be pounded to dust by space debris and the moon will look exactly the same as it always has.
I'm just going to put a preemptive "Whoosh" here before anyone replies to you.
Wouldn't fit in the suitcase with the M-16, Glock, and crossbow.
The difference here is that you're not relying on catching the criminals and punishing them, you're letting them serve up their own punishment.
Jaywalking has the natural consequence of possibly being hit by a moving vehicle. Legal or not, stepping out onto I-405 during rush hour will make you a human pancake.
Assault has the risk of getting harmed yourself if your target is armed. Even if no cops are around punching a Krav Maga expert will not end well for you.
Speeding increases your chance of dying in an accident as well. You may go ten or twenty over the speed limit on an empty road, but roaring around at 150mph will end with your car wrapped around a tree.
But the point is, you'd have to be able to get your (possibly massive) gun collection to wherever you are in 24 hours. The cop two states over isn't going to go to the trouble of going to your house to look for your gun.
What if your gun is genuinely stolen while you are on vacation and you don't know about it within 24 hours? There are too many ways for your proposed law to have unjust consequences with a deadline that short.
I suspect people would rather own illegal guns than report their existence to the police at all if they are going to be charged with a felony either way.
If they want to hazard the clearly marked minefield in order to do something illegal, isn't that their responsibility?
When you have an emperor of the USA instead of a president, it will be easy to pull off.
So if I'm on vacation two states over and a policeman demands to see my AK-47, what do I do if I left it at home?
You noticed, but are you going to do anything about it? Have you written to your congressperson yet? Staged a protest? Written an angry blog post about it even?
There's no point in noticing if you don't get off your arse and do something about it.
So that goes for almost everyone who has ever suffered through the US "justice" system.
So long as he is only judging in his area of experience, do his other beliefs matter?
They build their structure and sugars through photosynthesis. To use those sugars and produce energy, they burn them using oxygen just like an animal does.
So to find a truly earthlike planet, won't they have to focus on a single star for more than a year in order to detect the planet passing the star more than once? What if the planet's orbit never aligns to eclipse the sun? What if there are two or three planets in very similar orbits?
Sorry to burst your bubble, but plants require oxygen just as much as animals do.
So do we arrest them for cruelty to animals when they rape and murder things within our borders? A dolphin can't have rights if it doesn't have any of the responsibilities that go with them...
Any nation will have a few on the extremes. The national average is what matters though.
The stranger thing is that while America elevates sports above science, they still have some of the unhealthiest kids going to school...
A biology major probably could think it through if they were sat down and given a couple hours to reason it out. It's just that they are never forced to do so.
However you can prove that when your relatives claim that there was a temperature change, there actually wasn't one at all.
Since not one other slashdotter has conducted a ghost hunt in all probablility, I don't believe anything great will be lost to the world if this one does. He reports back to us about his findings, and in a few mere seconds of your time your beliefs about the non-existence of ghosts can be reinforced. What's to lose?
If he does find ghosts, you'll just discount him as another freak anyway, so the process of peer review will win out in the end even in a worst case scenario.
Also, don't pretend that you've never wasted a couple hours of your life doing something unproductive. If he wants to spend his free time playing ghostbusters and you want to spend your watching porn, that's a matter of personal preference.