Possession/sale of controlled substances; having no ID/refusing to show ID; importing/exporting without paying taxes; buying/carrying guns without a license; selling services and goods without permits: what do all these things have in common? They are “victimless crimes.” There is no crime if you hurt no one. Nor is there a crime if you hurt yourself on purpose or by accident. Yet the government has decided that the above should be criminal offenses.

Shouldn’t the law punish only those who have hurt others? Yes. Unfortunately, that is not the way things work today. Instead of the law being used to redress grievances against victims, the law has become an end in itself. To follow the law no longer means to naturally respect the life and property of others. Contemporary legislative law has degenerated to mean obedience and allegiance to the state and takes on the following form: “Failure to do X shall be considered a criminal act,” where X is any activity that has no victim. If anything, it hurts the pride of bureaucrats and politicians, whose welfare are directly related to the amount of wealth they can plunder from everyone else.

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