A refresher course on rights and personal freedom. What is your position on prostitution, pornography, gambling and other victimless crimes? This book will make readers consider their rights and the rights of others in a more humanistic and caring way. (Prelude Press)
Author(s): Peter McWilliams
Publisher: Prelude Press
Year: 1993
Language: English
Pages: 815
Tags: Libertarianism
There is no need to read this entire book.
Title Page
Copyright
Author’s Notes
PART I: THE BASIC PREMISE
An Overview
What Are Consensual Crimes?
Separation of Society and State
Personal Morality Versus Governmental Morality
Relationship
PART II: WHY LAWS AGAINST CONSENSUAL ACTIVITIES ARE NOT A GOOD IDEA
It’s Un-American
Laws Against Consensual Activities Are Unconstitutional
Laws Against Consensual Activities Violate the Separation of Church and State, Threatening the Freedom of and from Religion
Laws against Consensual Activities Are Opposed to the Principles of Private Property, Free Enterprise, Capitalism, and the Open Market
Enforcing Laws against Consensual Activities Is Very Expensive
Enforcing Laws against Consensual Activities Destroys People’s Lives
Intermission To Part II
Consensual Crimes Encourage Real Crimes
Consensual Crimes Corrupt Law Enforcement
The Cops Can’t Catch ’em; the Courts Can’t Handle ’em; the Prisons Can’t Hold ’em
Consensual Crimes Promote Organized Crime
Consensual Crimes Corrupt the Freedom of The Press
Laws against Consensual Activities Teach Irresponsibility
Laws against Consensual Activities Are Too Randomly Enforced to Be Either a Deterrent or Fair
Laws against Consensual Activities Discriminate against the Poor, Minorities, and Women
Problems Sometimes Associated with Consensual Activities Cannot Be Solved While They Are Crimes
Laws Against Consensual Activities Create a Society of Fear, Hatred, Bigotry, Oppression, and Conformity; a Culture Opposed to Personal Expression, Diversity, Freedom, Choice, and Growth
PART III: A CLOSER LOOK AT THE CONSENSUAL CRIMES
A Closer Look at the Consensual Crimes
Gambling
Drugs
Religious and Psychologically Therapeutic Use of Drugs
Regenerative Use of Drugs and Other Unorthodox Medical Practices
Prostitution
Pornography, Obscenity, Etc.
Violations of Marriage: Adultery, Fornication, Cohabitation, Bigamy, and Polygamy
Homosexuality
Unconventional Religious Practices
Unpopular Political Views
Suicide and Assisted Suicide
The Titanic Laws: Public Drunkenness, Loitering, Vagrancy, Seat Belts, Motorcycle Helmets, Public Nudity, Transvestism
PART IV: SIX CHAPTERS IN SEARCH OF A SHORTER BOOK
The Enlightenment or We Were So Much Older Then; We’re Younger Than That Now
Prohibition: A Lesson in the Futility (and Danger) of Prohibiting
What Jesus and the Bible Really Said about Consensual Crimes
Traditional Family Values
Putting the “Problem” in Perspective
Hypocrites
Part V: WHAT TO DO?
Education, Not Legislation
A Call to My Media Brethren
Protective Technology
Hemp For Victory
A State-by-State Look at Consensual Crime
We Must All Hang Together
The Politics of Change
About the Author
Acknowledgments
