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Laws are there for a reason, and it’s likely safe to assume that without them, chaos would ensue. However, while some rules are there to stop crime and wrongdoing against people, others seem to regulate situations where no one’s actually a victim.

The ‘Ask Reddit’ community members recently discussed what is or feels like a victimless crime. They shared their thoughts after the user u/secondfiddle00 started the thread, which covered everything from dumpster diving to collecting rainwater. Scroll down to find more of redditors' answers on the list below.

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#1

“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes As an ER nurse, I give a lot of s**t away to patients against the rules or advise them where they can get it cheaper. Big hospitals have more money than God, but want me to send you home with 1or2 wound supplies for a wound that will take 4 weeks to heal. F**k that. Here's a box of 50 for your purse. I never gave that to you. Hey, you need crutches, and here they are, but first. Before you sign that you got these. These crutches are $1000. The same or better are on Amazon for $50 or less. I'm not telling you how to live your life, but I can offer you a free wheelchair ride out to your sons car...

You could argue that the hospital is the victim here. I'm telling you that the hospital gets a discount on supplies and marks them up 1000% to sell to those going through an emergency. Who's really the victim?

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Appreciate all the support! Don't take this the wrong way, but I hope I never have the pleasure of taking care of any of you. Stay healthy people and keep living your life to the best you can.

To those saying I could get fired for this. I appreciate the concern. I can almost guarantee I will one day be fired for this. It's worth it to me. I will get another job in a different ER and continue my work.

Regarding the people saying I'm contributing to the problem. The problem is in the USA Healthcare model. Everything from insurance to CEOs. If my treatment and proper care of the individual is contributing to the problem, frankly, I don't think I care tbh. I will continue.

Lastly. Various arguments have been made to if this is a victimless crime or not. I don't disagree with some, but it's the closest thing I have to answer the question. Apologies if it doesn't 100% fit.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I am starting to get at feeling this list should be marked "illegal in the US".

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Assisted s*****e. As long as it’s humane, the person is of right mind and age, and there is sufficient cause for such a procedure. Death with dignity has been withheld for too long as a civil society.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Totally agree it should be legalised (under strict controls, obviously). Refusing a humane end to a suffering animal is rightly considered cruelty, so why do humans not get that same mercy when they need it?

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Anything related to food stamps. I’m sorry but food insecurity is not ok for anyone to go through. I don’t care about fudging the numbers to get food assistance. I don’t care about people who sell their food stamps (I know, it’s cards now, but you know what I mean). If you’re desperate enough to use fraud to get food or you’re selling your free food access to someone else who needs it because you need the money for bills, I’m ok with it.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

My food stamps were cut in half in March. Now I get $126 for the entire month. My SSI is $1200. Like many other people in this country, I can only afford one meal a day. Rather ironic, as I'm morbidly obese.

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Feeding the homeless in Texas. No victims but it is a crime.

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Refusing to wear a hijab (in Iran)

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Sleeping in your car when you are too drunk and can't drive.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Where is this a crime? In Switzerland you can't be in the drivers seat but otherwise no problem...

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Giving water to voters in lines in GA

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes I see Jaywalking on this quite a but but I will say when I lived overseas, jaywalking even at 2 am on an empty street just didn't happen. When I asked a local (German) why he wouldn't cross against a no walking sign he said "what if a kid looked out the window and saw me, i don't want to set a bad example"

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Varies from country to country. In the UK jaywalking is not a thing, people walk on or cross roads wherever they want, it's just their responsibility to check for traffic first before stepping out

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Saving migrants from drowning

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Surely the opposite would be a crime? Where is this illegal?

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Putting coins in someone else's parking meter.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I have given away so many parking tickets that have time left on them. Where I live you can get 30 mins to 1hr free depending on the car park/street

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Clicking "I am 18 years old" on an adult website when you're 17

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#12

“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Downloading very old games that are no longer available for sale.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I think this should not only be legal, but actually *encouraged* - it helps preserve old software, prevents it from being lost to history.

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Picking up a bird feather found on the ground and keeping it. It's technically against the migratory bird laws.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Entire species were hunted to extinction (Arabian Ostrich) or near extinction (bald eagle) for their feathers. They had to make possession illegal because its way too easy to shoot a bird 1/2 mile from the nearest road and then claim you found the feathers on the ground.

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Setting up a lemonade stand without a vendor license

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

"Is your lemonade made out of actual lemonade?" - "Are your scout cookies made out of actual scouts?"

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Feeding the homeless.

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#16

Prostitution. Ain't nobody's business if two more more consenting adults conduct a financial deal that involves bodily fluids.

That's not to say that cheating, withholding health problems, and sex trafficking aren't victimless, but those aren't just merely prostitution.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Prostitution should be legalized and taxed, just like any other business.

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Hanging a clothesline, collecting rainwater, or planting a garden in your yard. Some places ban you from doing these things

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Eating food out of someones garbage.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

The crime here is that there was food thrown out that could have been passed on to someone who needs it.

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Being gay in a homophobic country

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Worth noting that being gay in ‘most’ countries was still illegal well into the 1900’s, from memory I think it was decriminalised as late as 1996 in Germany. So to my mind we shouldn’t be pointing fingers at developing countries for their ideas, religions and beliefs because we are only talking between what 25-75 years ago when ‘we’ held similar ideas.

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Dumpster diving.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I see nothing wrong with this, we throw too much ok stuff away

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Wearing a dress as a man in Tennessee.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

It's clothing. It's there to keep you covered and protect you from the elements. What shape it comes in should be completely up to the wearer.

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#22

I can take a seed at home, put rain water on it and expose it to sunlight, dry the flowers, bake them into a cake and make some THC edibles, and it doesn't even harm the air quality due to smoking. That's a crime. No money goes to criminal gangs, and I would risk losing my job and going to prison.

Or I can manufacture alcohol and sell it legally, knowing that it causes people health issues, and that others cause crimes when drunk and disorderly, and that's absolutely fine and not a crime.

Weird.

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Hanging out in a public park after hours

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Selling alcohol on Sunday. It's still illegal in some States.

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Being an atheist in many many countries

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

If being in a religion is okay, then not being in one should be too. Forcing people into a religion tends to have the opposite effect…

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Stealing from a multi billion corporation

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Blasphemy

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes TONS of blue laws.

basically antiquated laws on the books that have to do with religion (mostly on sundays). In my state you can't buy alcohol on sunday before noon. And car dealers are not allowed to be open on sunday. Basically they are designed to not compete with church attending times like early morning.

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1 year ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

We have a certain religion here where I live that don't work on Sunday's. But of course they will go to church then go out for brunch afterward and make other people work even though they HIGHLY judge people who work on Sunday. I work in Healthcare there are no days off. My friends say "I better not treat them if they come in on Sunday lest I will be judged." Of course she was being sarcastic.

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When cops pretend to be kids and get people for solicitation to a minor. When I worked at the district attorneys office we LOVED these. The shock on these men’s face when the “14 year old girl” they spoke to was our 6’5”, 300 pound 50 year old detective was just….amazing.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Don’t quite understand this one. Is OP saying it SHOULD be a crime when cops go undercover?

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Speeding If traffic is all going above the speed limit. the safest speed is not the speed limit. The safest speed is the speed at which traffic is moving. speeding doesn't inherently cause accidents. differential in speed causes accidents.

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Jaywalking when there are no cars on the road.

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Loitering. It's basically just existing somewhere.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Businesses are harmed if your "existing" as you call it makes their location less desirable to shop or do business in. A lot of these "victimless" crimes sound like they were written by people who never considered the other person's point of view.

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Collecting rain water (a crime in a lot of cities here in the US).

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

this makes absolutely no sense do the US goverment think they own the weather or something

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Downloading games for obsolete consoles from companies which are now non-existent.

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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Like I mentioned under a similar post - this should not only be legal, but encouraged, to preserve these old games for history.

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“Believe It Or Not, It’s A Crime”: 35 Examples Of Victimless Crimes Pirating cute cat videos off the internet

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