Definition
- A victim is anyone involuntarily subjected to aggression.
Victimless Crimes
- Many of the laws people around the world are currently subjected to prohibit actions that have no victim.
- Such ‘victimless crimes’ include prostitution, euthanasia, free speech, drugs, gambling, homosexuality and responsible weapons ownership.
The harm from outlawing victimless crimes
- To arrest, fine or otherwise forcefully prohibit peaceful conduct is to aggress against a peaceful person; a serious violation of the 3L Principle.
- Regardless of the motivation, title, uniform, bade or status, the first person who aggresses is always wrong. We should legally sanction such a person.
- Outlawing victimless crimes is doubly wrong. It punishes peaceful people for acting according to their will, then forces everyone else to pay the costs of enforcement and punishment.
- Prohibiting these voluntary behaviours is expensive, rarely effective and defines peaceful people as criminals. It just creates an underworld where genuine acts of aggressing are more likely.
The more laws and restrictions there are, The poorer people become.
The more rules and regulations, The more thieves and robbers.
