• Wilco@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      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.

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        11 months ago

        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.

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          11 months ago

          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.

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        11 months ago

        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.

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      10 months ago

      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)

      • Wilco@lemm.ee
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        10 months ago

        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.