To take publius' example one step further: "If am 20 (under legal age) and I buy a big bottle of booze from the liquor store with a fake ID and down the whole thing and then die of alcohol poisoning, is the store owner guilty of murder?
By Old Dog's definition, the store owner would not be guilty in publius' first example since both party's were legal adults and no laws were broken during the transaction, but would be in mine since both parties broke a law in the transaction. It's amazing that 24 hours of someone's age can change the verdict from not-guilty to guilty of a death-penalty capable conviction. Too, the seller could have been convicted of a felony if he didn't accept the fake ID as legit and declined the sale, and further testing proved that it was indeed a genuine Govt approved form of ID. Similarly to a seller declining to accept cash as legal tender.
My point is there are enough laws out there to make every breathing American into a felon any way you look at it. It's high-time Congress started spending some time repealing outdated, antiquated, unreasonable, and unenforcable laws.
By the way, does anyone know where I can find a list of repealed laws that are repealed during each Congressional session? I'm willing to bet that there are far more laws passed than repealed on an order of 100:1 or greater.
By Old Dog's definition, the store owner would not be guilty in publius' first example since both party's were legal adults and no laws were broken during the transaction, but would be in mine since both parties broke a law in the transaction. It's amazing that 24 hours of someone's age can change the verdict from not-guilty to guilty of a death-penalty capable conviction. Too, the seller could have been convicted of a felony if he didn't accept the fake ID as legit and declined the sale, and further testing proved that it was indeed a genuine Govt approved form of ID. Similarly to a seller declining to accept cash as legal tender.
My point is there are enough laws out there to make every breathing American into a felon any way you look at it. It's high-time Congress started spending some time repealing outdated, antiquated, unreasonable, and unenforcable laws.
By the way, does anyone know where I can find a list of repealed laws that are repealed during each Congressional session? I'm willing to bet that there are far more laws passed than repealed on an order of 100:1 or greater.
