Amendment to the Consolidated Criminal Justice Act (Law'd)

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I wonder whether we should use this as an opportunity to review Criminal Law here in a wider sense.

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Might as well have a crack at this...

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These three offenses are all just different forms of the same thing, just that they are committed in slightly different ways. In other legal systems, no distinction is made between (for example) murdering someone with an axe, murdering someone with a knife or murdering someone with (say) a set of braces.

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Again, these two offenses are basically different versions of the same thing. The offense should be spamming, btw.

But the complaints above are relatively trivial. More serious concerns this...

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Firstly, it occurs to me that this "punishment" is, in some cases, not likely to be especially effective. A ban on the fantasy boards, enforced by the moderator, should probably be an option in cases of fraud. Secondly, the sentance lengths seem a littly bit on the arbitrary side; of course, they are only upper limits, but why those upper limits [qm]. I suppose you have to draw a line somewhere.

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I don't see why destroying a voting booth should be counted as any more serious than impersonation and fraud. Certainly it isn't treason.

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"Lifetime" here is rather amusing; the (median) average age here is probably less than the age I was when fantasyland started. Most of the people posting here will have 40 or 50 years of their lives left to live. This is absurd. Totally absurd.

Part II later

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