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Originally Posted by shawty
It makes someone a hypocrite, so what, its still illegal.
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Again, I have never claimed it wasn't illegal.
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Originally Posted by Incognitas
Well now it's bad enough that the CPS filter out cases that they don't think they can win without the general public deciding to filter reporting crimes because some cases aren't as important as others. |
This has always been a basic rule of society, though. That's never going to change.
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Too many people feel alone and lost in a society that seems to have given up and accept reprehensible behaviour as the norm because it isn't much of a crime.
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I think we're getting into very different issues here. The reality is that you can phone Virgin and report someone stealing cable, and find that they aren't particularly interested. Best case scenario, they will put that particular line on the list to be disconnected whenever they have a tech in the area anyway, but if it's someone who already has a minimum subscription, even phone and broadband, it's unlikely that they will do anything at all.
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The truth is there is NO such crime as a victimless crime.Someone somewhere has to pay.I'd rather it was the crook who does the paying.
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That's not going to happen, though. Only in very rare circumstances will the cable companies try to prosecute individual offenders, and if the supposed victim can't even be bothered, I'd say that's about as close to the definition of victimless crime as you're ever going to get.