--- In [email protected], Valentine Michael Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's not victimless crime > It's religion enacted into law. > also called malum prohibitum. >
It's Both! It's two, two, two mints in one! But the proper term is Victimless Crime, since it is a Crime and there is no Victim. Malum Prohibitum may or may not be a Victimless Crime. Murder, for example, is Malum Prohibitum (and simultaneously Malum In Se). SOME Victimless Crimes are religion enacted into Law. Some, such as Polygamy, are just Custom enacted into Law. Okay, that may be a bad example, since many Christians think that Polygamy is against their Religion, despite the fact that the Jews of Jesus's day were allowed up to 17 wives - later increased - and Jesus never said one word against it, not even against the polygamy of Herod The Great, who sometimes had up to 10 wives at a time IN JERUSALEM and nearby. So... say Reckless Driving, that is a Crime (a Misdemeanor, in Florida) which is Malum Prohibitum but is not Religion Enacted Into Law. More like Administration enacted into Law. Okay, that one might by some be considered also Malum In Se, so let's try again. Say, Drug Merchandising. There ya go, Malum Prohibitum, and a Victimless Crime, but not Religion.
