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Re:The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero by jokethrowaway on Saturday September 03, 2022 @05:25PM (#32706272)
If you define crime as violating the anarchist non-aggression principle, then it makes more sense. The only problem is that the state would be the largest offender.

Nazi laws weren't moral, as it's not moral today to demand half of my profits or I go to jail.

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Re:The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero by atq2119 on Saturday September 03, 2022 @06:14PM (#32706651)
You just picked your own idea of morality and decided to elevate it above others: you chose the "anarchist non-aggression principle" as somehow morally superior to other ideas about how crimes should be defined, and decided that with that definition, targeting zero crimes makes more sense.

But the whole point is that we will never universally agree on a morality because society's overall preferences shift over time. So targeting zero crimes never makes sense.

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