GMS 804 Chapter Notes - Chapter 13: Paraphilia, Psychoactive Drug, Victimless Crime
24 Feb 2021
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Sometimes called victimless crimes, these acts interfere with public order, and often offend moral sensibilities. Some argue that pornography, prostitution, and drug use erode the moral fabric of society and should be punished by law because of a collective feeling of revulsion toward certain acts, even if they are not dangerous. In his classic statement on the function of morality in the law, sir. Without shared ideas on politics, morals, and ethics no society can exist If men and women try to create a society in which there is no fundamental agreement about good and evil, they will fail; if having based it on common agreement, the society will disintegrate. For society is not something that is kept together physically; it is held by the invisible bonds of common thought. If the bonds were too far relaxed, the mem-bers would drift apart.
