The very many questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread XXXI

[Arakhor]

This is "questions not worth their own thread", not "contentious opinions better off in their own thread".

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Maybe someone should make a new thread, then, and ask a moderator to move the posts.

 

[Flying Pig]

Moderator Action: I'm happy to start a new thread on witch-hunting, but think that the discussion on transgender issues is best stopped here.

 

[Silurian]

Fun fact: it was a common practice to simply kill unwanted babies by exposure in medieval Europe, and was outright legal in parts of Germany. Yes, a much more honest era.

This was still being carried out within the lifetimes of some posters for babies with major defects.

 

[Arakhor]

Oedipus was supposedly put out to die on a mountainside before being rescued by a shepherd, but that doesn't mean that it's either moral or defensible.

 

[cardgame]

300 trials in one city over 7 years sounds relatively common to me. That's, what, 44 per year? That's every week.

 

[Snerk]

If or when I get put out to die I want to go full Romelus/Remus and be saved by wolf or prostitute. Either will do.

 

[Traitorfish]

300 trials in one city over 7 years sounds relatively common to me. That's, what, 44 per year? That's every week.

This was Calvinist Geneva, though, they had more trials for people sneezing on the Sabbath.

 

[shadowplay]

My sister bought a new car, and as a freebie, she got a bluetooth wireless speaker. Tell me what scenario this is supposed to be used in, because neither of us can figure it out. Is it for the car?

 

[Traitorfish]

I just use mine around the house. If you don't have a hi-fi setup, and most people probably don't these days, it's a straightforward way to play music from a phone or tablet or whatever without it sounding like tinny garbage.

 

[Commodore]

If I stole a car during the purge (since all crime is legal), does that mean the car is legally mine now and I'd have to go get it registered and all that? If so, I would need the title to get it registered, so would the person I stole it from be obligated to give it to me? And if the car wasn't paid off, would I then have to start making the payments on it, or would the person I stole it from still be on the hook for that?

 

[W|M]

Surely if all crime is legal, then laws have no meaning, so you wouldn't have to get it registered in the first place

 

[Commodore]

Surely if all crime is legal, then laws have no meaning, so you wouldn't have to get it registered in the first place

I'm talking about in the context of the movie "The Purge" where all crime is legal for 12 hours one day a year. Outside of that specific period of time, all laws are still applicable.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

I'm talking about in the context of the movie "The Purge" where all crime is legal for 12 hours one day a year. Outside of that specific period of time, all laws are still applicable.

Sounds like the old Star Trek episode "Return of the Archons." Mind you, that society was controlled by a computer, and Kirk defeated it with illogic.

 

[Arakhor]

If I stole a car during the purge (since all crime is legal), does that mean the car is legally mine now and I'd have to go get it registered and all that? If so, I would need the title to get it registered, so would the person I stole it from be obligated to give it to me? And if the car wasn't paid off, would I then have to start making the payments on it, or would the person I stole it from still be on the hook for that?

As you've established, just because you can't be held accountable for taking the car, nothing indicates that you are now the legal owner.

 

[Lohrenswald]

If I stole a car during the purge (since all crime is legal), does that mean the car is legally mine now and I'd have to go get it registered and all that? If so, I would need the title to get it registered, so would the person I stole it from be obligated to give it to me? And if the car wasn't paid off, would I then have to start making the payments on it, or would the person I stole it from still be on the hook for that?

they didn't thimk the concept through

 

[Flying Pig]

As you've established, just because you can't be held accountable for taking the car, nothing indicates that you are now the legal owner.

In English law, you are a thief if you 'dishonestly appropriate' another person's property - to my eyes, that's a single action. If the taking ('appropriation') was legal (because all laws are suspended), it doesn't seem like it's theft to hold onto it, and you can't be booked for possession of stolen goods because there was no theft in the first place! I'm not sure where that leaves the payments, though.

 

[Arakhor]

I agree, FP, but equally it would seem that since the previous owner's are only affected for one night, nothing stops them from reclaiming it the next day.

 

[Flying Pig]

No, except that they're then bound by the ordinary laws - that you can't use violence to take something from another person - and probably don't have recourse to the usual way around that problem. With that said, it's the sort of thing that would probably become a civil matter - see the recent trend for using them to redress criminal cases where the crown courts (or equivalent) clearly failed.

 

[Hygro]

If I stole a car during the purge (since all crime is legal), does that mean the car is legally mine now and I'd have to go get it registered and all that? If so, I would need the title to get it registered, so would the person I stole it from be obligated to give it to me? And if the car wasn't paid off, would I then have to start making the payments on it, or would the person I stole it from still be on the hook for that?

Ownership ceases during the purge, would resume to be your neighbors afterward. You would not be responsible for returning the car, but it would be illegal to drive it.