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acptulsa
It's not illegal because 'somebody' says so, it's illegal because the statutes say so. Go buy yourself a dictionary.
Statutes didn't write themselves. Somebody who thinks they have the right to tell you what to do wrote them.
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Getting away with a crime doesn't mean the crime isn't a crime. Go buy yourself a dictionary.
Saying it's a crime but doing nothing about it is as good as not saying it's a crime.
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Nowhere in the definition of 'law' will you find the word 'unbreakable'. Can we start a chip in and buy this individual a dictionary already?
No dictionary, not even law dictionaries, say "law" allows government to force people to pay to punish those who break it either. Let's follow dictionary definitions only, shall we?
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I really can't lay claim to it being my definition. Which you would already know if you had a damned dictionary.
see above.
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No. Bankruptcy records exist.
but it allows a person to legally walk away freely, and tells the creditor he's SOL, and makes it illegal to harass to collect.
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Obviously not. My point is that you cannot set out to rape someone with good intent
the criminal will never admit he had bad intent. but hey, we get to tell him he has bad intent because we read his mind, right?
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, then have circumstances change on you which then turn your rape into bad intent. Obviously. Clearly. And in terms so plain that only a fool, an idiot, or the wilfully ignorant could possibly misunderstand.
Calling me names doesn't make you right.
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But when the prisoner is put to work, someone benefits from that work. Who benefits?
Wait? am I reading from the SAME GUY who was just complaining to me that prisons will be subsidized by innocent 3rd parties? Well we just found a solution, they'll be paid back that way.
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A debtors' prison pays the lender when it makes money off the prisoner's labor.
He can avoid it if he paid off better ways. I don't (since I started this thread, I think I get to give you my position), imprison people unless its last resort, usually when it's beyond reasonable doubt that the person is unable and unwilling to pay, and punishing him is the same rationale as punishing prisoners, to prevent him from hurting more people, and warning other people that's what happens if you wrong somebody, even if it doesn't pay back the victim.
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Does your local prison pay Bank of America when it turns a dollar (or saves a contractor dollar) because of a prisoner's labor?
if it did, does it make it better or worse? I'm amazed, you're now arguing that prisons for debtors will make too much money and we'll be worrying about where to place the extra money. Before I thought, everybody was arguing that it'll waste too much money and burden taxpayers for nothing in return.