What about the seizure and occupation of vacant private property?
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Let's cover polygamy and tax fraud. If you marry multiple people during the purge ... does that mean the marriages are all legal?
If you claim a $1,000,000 tax refund and mail it while the purge is going ... is that legal?
Most people would have way more on their mind than just murder.
the purge: April 15th
(for thise that are not american, this is when we have to file our taxes.)
(also, americans have to file their taxes manually... nothing is automated)
Yep, and in the US, if you miss something on your taxes the government/IRS will delay the taxes and actually redo them and send you the new amount.
Within 4 hours of announcing that a "purge night" was a thing, they would have to revise it to just call it "murder night" and even then, it will get further modified to "Murder of sanctioned people and groups night" and even THEN they will have to further amend it until it finally says "The police get to murder you night" and then they will want to remove the nightly restriction and then BAM you have what we have now.
Just like that, you have moved any books written about the Purge from fiction to non-fiction.
I haven't watched the movies in depth, but the premise alone speaks to me of a subtext that leads to this understanding about our world.
I would say that once the purge ends you cannot be legally married to multiple people. Meanwhile if you murder someone they're just dead. If you kidnap someone you'd have to let them go when it ends.
Stealing is an interesting gray area. Is possessing a stolen object the crime, or is the stealing the crime? Or possibly both? If possessing a stolen object is illegal then you'd have to return them when it ends.
It's not "stolen" because stealing is a crime but you took it on ~~free balloon~~ Purge Day. It's just something you have now.
What if you shot someone during the purge, but they did not actually die until the next day.
I'm thinking this whole "no laws" concept would actually need hundreds of thousands of laws. Courts would be tied up for years after each purge just trying to answer the legal questions regarding having no law.
I think of it more as the law looking away from any incidents on the day, and ignoring any lasting consequences after. Makes it neater.
Skyrim would have me believe that possession of a stolen item is also a crime.
Everything is legal, including:
- falsifying a crime report or committing purjury
- excessive force or police brutality
- coerced confession
- false arrest or imprisonment
- evidence or witness tampering
- unwarranted search and seizure or surveillance
We're still talking about the purge, right?
Um... yes...?
Dropping nukes...
If everything is legal, and a police officer imprisions you that's ok right?! Nothing is ilegal. so we back.to running from the police
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Stealing some real food, destroying anti-homeless architecture, sleeping in your own car, getting an abortion, same-sex marriage.
Anyway, I doubt most people would get violent. Most people aren't just held back by laws, but morality. People would probably just be trying all kinds of drugs mostly, racing, trespassing and breaking into places. What better time for exploring some abandoned buildings, or staff-only areas.
You'd probably find me in a train depot, probably taking pictures and trying to figure out how to get one of the engines running. If that area wasn't guarded of course.
Alternatively, I'd probably steal a bus. Or a semi truck. Just temporarily. I don't have a drivers license, but I want to try driving that.
Hmm, I might take a bicycle to the airport. I doubt people would risk flying, and it would probably be the emptiest area for cycling.
Anyway, I doubt most people would get violent. Most people aren’t just held back by laws, but morality
I'll be honest here, mate, I think we've seen that a very large portion of the population would be more than happy to get violent. It's mostly the ones who scream about laws needing to enforce morality on 'the heathens.'
I always assumed the Purges were set up by a far right government to legally kill anyone who tried to organise against them.
Send goon squads (not the new ones) to smash up and kill coops, local farms, unions, uncooperative lawyers, journalists, etc.
You can do that without the purge.
Yes, folks can and do.
But Hollywood likes to good wash the current status quo, so let's ignore PayPal's union busting and censorship policies, bombing civilians, systemic racism, and take it up to 11 in a fictional future.
Or maybe I'm just jaded by the biggest fans of "purgey" settings being right wing folks.
No Knock Warrant. Wrong Name Warrent.
We want to watch poor people kill each other, not better their situation
Luckily, I think the way that I conduct my life leaves me with very low odds for being on anyone's kill list. I only have to worry about the murderous random killing.
Soon they'll come for the thousandaires. You shouldn't exist!
Ooh look at mr hundredair over here, thinking he's better than the rest of us. You'll get what's coming to ya, pal.
And don't think for one second that I'll be turning a blind eye to the rest of you positive balance freaks.
Pirates Software
Large Company To Police:
They pirated it after the purge ended. If you don't destroy their property, I'll make sure you get fired and your life forfeit!
that's a great way to be targeted next purge.
I would bet that a great many heads of 'large companies' would be targeted in the first purge. There's no way that there isn't some disgruntled employee or even an ex-employee that wouldn't be willing to take a swing at the big guy before poverty comes in for the kill.
You won't be charged with entering illegally, but staying illegally.
You won't be charged with the import, but for posession. Well I guess for exports, if you procure it and export it quickly and then delete/destroy it from your posessions, its fine. But import? Nah. Whoever end with its possession is fucked.
And for export, they could just charge for the creation of it without approval, not the export itself.
Piracy? Yea they'll just prosecute for posession.
Tax fraud? They'll just shut down IRS for duration of the purge so you can't even file it.
Possession of pirated material isn't illegal. It's the distribution that gets you. That's why torrenting needs a VPN but streaming is perfectly legal (for the viewer)
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I always thought those movies were too simplistic.
Some people would think things through.
If the purge were real there would be a whole industry around purge-proofing homes. Also rental purge-proof shelters.
That is a main storyline element in the first movie
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If you steal a car during the purge do the transfer the title after
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