“Shoplifting is a victimless crime. Like punching someone in the dark.”
“Victimless crime” has always been kind of a grey term anyway. There are two sides to the types of things that refers to.
Doing drugs? Being a prostitute? Gambling your money away? Victimless crimes.
Manufacturing drugs? Being a pimp? Running a casino? I’m not so sure.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
vicitmless crimes are about the individual. So yeah someone prostituting themselves and someone taking them up on it no prob. Running a brothel or being a pimp is sorta different. All the same Im fine with bussinesses that support the same as long as highly regulated. So at the individual level I want light regulation mainly for safety but going up to business I want a lot of regulation not only for safety on all levels but to prevent abuse and it should be taxed more than regular businesses.
Grail@multiverse.soulism.net 2 weeks ago
Here in Australia, if two sex workers move in together and practice out of their homes, that’s legally a brothel and they’re criminals. And there are lots of legitimate reasons to do that. Safety in numbers, the fact that a fellow sex worker isn’t going to judge you, three-ways. But it’s illegal. And ridiculous laws like that are why a lot of sex workers in this country want full decrim.
HubertManne@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
Yeah seems strange to me it would legally be a brothel. As long as they kept their money seperate it should just be two individuals. I mean if two people where in the trade and lived in different apartments in the same building would it still be considered a brothel?