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I’m making a new post again, but I am bored. So, I want to hear your opinions on what needs to be illegal. I don’t want to see drug dealing or inappropriate responses (I.e. literally asking for nudes), but I’m fine with everything else. So, what should be illegal?
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#1
I'll probably get hate for this Tobacco cigarettes. There is absolutely no health benefits, no good reason cigarettes exist. I could go on a tangent, but I'm sure we've all heard everything I could say about them.
Final score:
33points
Marinasongs1432 3 years ago
Alcohol was once banned in the U.S., but it caused a raise in organized crime. Good intentions, chaotic results. The problem is… would it work if we banned smoking?
Local foodie 3 years ago
Prohibition only increased alcohol consumption. The same thing will probably happen with cigarettes
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StrangeOne (Submission author) 3 years ago
Out of all the other things in this list I seem to have struck a nerve to you the most. I take it you're a smoker. I don't care what people do to themselves as long as it's not affecting others. Smoking does affect others. I have a smoke allergy. Yes, it is a real allergy confirmed with doctors. My airways tighten and burn. I come across smokers in places I need to be and shouldn't have to be inflicted with the smoke, but they're always right in front of doorways. I live in an apartment block with 3 entrances to the building, and it's a rather big building. Often there are multiple people smoking in front of all the doors. Some people move if asked. Others ignore me. I just want to go inside to my home. Usually I have to hold my breath while I'm fumbling the lock with a smoker jeering behind me all offended. I don't get what is so offensive to smokers about needing, not wanting, NEEDING to be away from that environment.
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#2
TikTok. Darn app stole my friends!
Final score:
30points
Toolkit 3 years ago
Same. It keeps getting banned and then unbanned in our country tho
Load More Replies... Marinasongs1432 3 years ago
It was going to be illegal in the U.S., but Walmart bought stock so now we’re still have this 😭.
Marinasongs1432 3 years ago
At least, I think it was Walmart. Can someone fact check that?
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Guns
Final score:
29points
Marinasongs1432 3 years ago
I agree, and I’m an American. I am so afraid to go to school anymore because I’m afraid of someone attacking our school. There was one student who brought a gun on the bus last year, but nothing happened.
Chan Heng Li (Zhonghuass) 3 years ago
Guns are banned here, no civilian can have them in Singapore. As such, the crime rate is extremely low, and murders are very rare.
TheAquarius1978 3 years ago
They allready are iligal in most civilized countries and on some uncivilized ones to..
1.21Gigawatts?! 3 years ago
There was a shooting in my town like a month or two ago. Thankfully he only killed one person and was caught by the end of the day
Joshua Moon 3 years ago
How is the slashing and stabbing rates? My best friend from redcar always complained about the knife violence. He was stabbed to death a while ago.
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Recording and posting every freaking thing on social media. There's someone dying on the road and is in need for help, but people choose to record it. There's a child getting bullied, and the other idiots in the school start recording it and sharing it all over WhatsApp, Snapchat etc. There are two people fighting on the road, you go live on Instagram. Someone goes online to find that there are photos and videos of them posted without consent. This should be illegal!
Final score:
27points
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Like that scum that videoed the five cops that were hit by a truck and dying on the side of the road! He got charged but got little by way of sentence.
#5
I think that child marriage should be illegal. That, and entitled Karens.
Final score:
24points
Jo Hunt 3 years ago (edited)
The deliberate creation of ear worm tunes. Katy Perry deserves to be punished for that menulog ad.
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
Yes! There are many bad ones but that has to be the worst!
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Natasha 3 years ago (edited)
Only problem with the entailed Karen things is people would probably abuse it and if someone didn’t like you they could put you away because of this. But the child marriage thing I completely agree with. I didn’t even know it was still happening! How horrible
Marinasongs1432 (Submission author) 3 years ago
There would need to be a limit that showed no exceptions… for Karens. It’s really sad that children are being married off so young without consent! It’s terrible!
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Spam phone calls. I got 22 in 3 days this week. It’s ridiculous.
Final score:
23points
Marinasongs1432 3 years ago
Me too. What I like to do is ask in about 50 different languages “where’s my spaghetti?”
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Alias Delfs 3 years ago
The moment I got my brick flip phone for emergencies three minutes after turning it on and activating it got called by five scams THREE MINUTES!!
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Occasionally, when I get a scam call, I will try to keep the jerk on my line for as long as possible, B.S.ing and acting as though I am dumb as a sack of screws, or putting down the phone on the pretense of getting something and then leaving it alone for a stretch. I kept one dork busy for more than 20 minutes. Eventually they catch on and hang up - but as long as they are putting up with me they aren't bugging other people.
#7
villainizing sex workers. I said it once, and ill say it again. Some of the bravest people ever.
Final score:
21points
HELLUVA SEAGULL 3 years ago
Thought that said sex offenders a d got very confused, but YES. Dealing with creeps EVERYDAY.
#8
A controversial one but i think piercing baby and toddlers ears should be illegal. It's basically maiming your child for cosmetic reasons and at that age they can't decide for themselves.
Final score:
20points
frosty_pigeon 3 years ago
true, but you wont remember it if you get one as a kid so your parents are basically saving you your suffering in a way.
RajunCajun 3 years ago
I'm on the fence about this. I see your point but they are too young to remember it.
#9
won't go into detail but a group of people started mocking and videoing a bunch of police officers who were injured yet didn't serve much jailtime because no laws had been enforced on such crime (unless you were directly involved in the incident) basically, it should be illegal to video others physical suffering for the purpose of comedy
Final score:
18points
Marinasongs1432 3 years ago
Defunding the police should be illegal. We need reform. If we defund the police, then more people don’t want to work as an officer, and prisons will get worse, and crime will go up, and our nation will become unstable. Not all police officers are evil! Not all officers are black hating whites! Many officers love their job and need the money in order to support their family! Police risk their lives! Let’s help the police reform, not get defunded!
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Exactly! Like it or not, we need cops. They are not a necessary evil, they are a necessity. We need to overhaul our entire law enforcement system and provide more, and better, training for officers.
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Placing medical bills in to collections then suing people for said bills
Final score:
18points
#11
recording giving a homeless person or person in need food or money. it’s honestly selfish to do so, you already get the good feelings when helping someone, recording is just for views and clout. also, putting animals in danger and “helping them” for videos and views
Final score:
17points
StrangeOne 3 years ago
it's exploitive even with good intentions. Anyone in a vulnerable spot won't want to be seen and blasted on a public platform as someone in such a situation.
L Melville 3 years ago
And sadly, if they're extremely desperate for the money/food/help, they will agree to being exploited like this, because they are so desperate/vulnerable. I have heard/read people defending this by being like "they agreed to be on camera!!!!" but like....of COURSE they did. There would be no money/food/help otherwise! 🤦♀️
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Trump
Final score:
17points
#13
Using the word Nazi as a descriptive word of someone that's extremely particular, like "grammar Nazi". Most of us have grandparents that actually fought, killed, or were killed by literal Nazis and it feels wrong to use that word so liberally in our sentences.
Final score:
16points
1.21Gigawatts?! 3 years ago
This! I wouldn’t be alive to type this if my great grandfather hadn’t survived WW2 and fighting the Nazis!
Gabby Ghoul 3 years ago
Casual use of the term diminishes the scale of the horror perpetrated by actual Nazis.
#14
unregulated CEO remuneration Executive salaries should be a defined percentage of the minimum wage earner in the same company. Maybe 1/100th of the CEO's remuneration? That way if they get a raise the lowest paid workers do too benefit.
Final score:
15points
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago (edited)
In most countries CEO pay is no more than a dozen or so times that of the rank-and-file workers. A top-heavy system will eventually crumble.
#15
Ik cyber bullying is illegal but it has to be taken care of better. A lot of such cases get passed on like nothing. Being a subject to it twice, I know the feeling.
Final score:
13points
#16
hating someone cause thier religion.
Final score:
13points
Chan Heng Li (Zhonghuass) 3 years ago
Again, sorry to talk here, but in Singapore, there is virtually almost no racism and hate because of their religion. Any racism and hate is banned.
#17
A few things I find kind of nonsensical, although these would be impossible to be made illegal, since if there are human beings existing there will be jerks and criminals. 1. Sexism and just general nonsense. And plus, women want EQUAL treatment with men, not HIGHER treatment of men. So I disagree with feminists just as the same as thinking-women-are-inferior stupid men, even if I’m biologically female. But it’s proving impossible since the working society, bluntly, dislikes women. People, it’s just a gender. If you treat a person by their gender and not as an unique human being, you are an a******e and you deserve to have a better education. 2. Racism. Why? Just why? As an Asian student I’ve been getting a lot of downright ridiculous stuff like delusional people saying I don’t get to exist and I should burn in hell. Tempting, but no thanks. I understand it’s YOUR country and stuff, but guess what I’m not doing anything wrong. I’m completely harmless. I’m just a freaking student who would always be the one being picked on. And people who judge people by skin color, accents and cultural differences to themselves, you STILL deserve a better education. 3. Arrogance and general rudeness, inconsiderate speaking, tactless remarks and stuff. It’s just some stuff everyone dislikes. It’s impossible to ban but still. And also it’s so RUDE to say ‘I didn’t mean it, why are you so sensitive’ to friends/partner. If you’ve been tactless and said rude or hurtful things ONCE it’s okay, everyone makes mistakes. But THAT doesn’t mean a friends’ dignity is to be STOMPED on. I don’t know if I’m the only one who seems to be a toxic friend magnet, but if a loved one ( be it friends, BFFs or family )constantly belittles you, you need to be careful around them and don’t harm yourself further. This is long. But there’s a freaking reason I nearly got depression.
Final score:
11points
#18
Fascism
Final score:
10points
Richard Smith 3 years ago
Gotta define it first. The word has been so overused that it's meaning has been diluted and distorted.
Full Name (Submission author) 3 years ago
Yeah I had that brought up to me yesterday actually. What I meant was discriminating against someone just because they're different. I have no issue if you hate a group of people because they're actually bad (like pedophiles and stuff)
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Racism. Not just when it comes to jobs or housing but any public form of racism should be punishable in some way, even if we start with just a fine and re-education for first time offenders.
Final score:
9points
Rocket ship 3 years ago
This should be higher 👆. There is one race and that is the human race. Nobody should be discriminated for the colour of their skin, gender, religion, sexuality or disabilities.
Marinasongs1432 3 years ago
But what if it’s by accident? Like, we use a racist stereotype like “Asians are smart” or something like that? Would we get jailed?
#20
This is controversial, but any law based on religion. I have nothing against religion per se, but there are too many for any one of them to be making the laws for everyone.
Final score:
8points
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
I am a Christian but I agree. Our society is full of many cultures and religions and many people have no religion, so why should there be laws that enforce one. I think it does need to include laws about not discriminating anyone based on religion or lack there of either obviously.
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Right now I am reading "The Founding Myth" by Andrew Seidel. He points out that this country and its government are supposed to be based on reason and humanist principles, not religion. He really rakes Christian nationalists over the coals. I highly recommend it!
#21
Peeing in a bush out in public. Like please, at least try to find a public bathroom or maybe a cornered off area to to your business, but not in the bush in front of everyone.
Final score:
7points
Leenahray 3 years ago
It is illegal, it just gets filed under varying crimes (disorderly conduct, indecent exposure, etc). Even so, as previous commenter said, many businesses will not let certain people in to use a restroom, especially the homeless. Not supporting public urination, but it is not a simple "make it illegal," you have to keep in mind who is doing it the most, why, and if their reason is unreasonable enough to criminalize them for it.
StrangeOne 3 years ago
I hear truckers, even when dropping off supplies at grocery stores, are refused to be allowed to use the washrooms. Issues were raised because it makes it harder for women to find a place to go to the washroom discreetly and privately. So, the truckers pee outside of the building. I don't think all places do this to truckers, but it's what I've heard some do. Other times, I think people are just being lazy. If women have to hold it until they find a proper restroom so can men.
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Sometimes I do not use the restroom in a place I don't do it in public. I find a place on a side road where there are lots of trees or behind a building that is closed or has a woods behind it. Why do this because I have bladder problems, and some people have a closed restroom or private one. And I am a women so I don't want anyone to see me pee somewhere. I am very very discreet. But if I hold it I end up with a bladder infection and possible in the hospital peeing blood. I know what you are saying though.
#22
having more then twelve items in an express lane at the grocery store. should be one day of jail for every extra item.
Final score:
7points
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Or one day picking up trash along a road or highway. Or cleaning the poop out of kennels and litter boxes at animal shelters.
#23
Working for more than four days a week! We need to re think this job situation.
Final score:
7points
Sunshine Daydream 3 years ago
4x10 is great, you either get a three day weekend, or take Wednesday off
#25
My sister.
Final score:
6points
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
My grandmother told me that, when she was growing up, she and her brothers totally hated each other. My great-grandparents were nervous about leaving them by themselves lest the couple come home and find one of the three was unalive. Once they grew up, though, they became the best of friends. All three are gone now.
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#26
Walking out into a street without looking both ways first, because pedestrians have the right of way. Everyone in the US who’s been killed by a car also had the right of way. Take responsibility for your own life and show some respect when crossing.
Final score:
6points
Marinasongs1432 3 years ago
But jaywalking is illegal, too. It’s just it isn’t strictly regulated.
#27
driving cars at age 16. a lot of ppl dies each year due to it.
Final score:
5points
Huddo's sister 3 years ago
It is where I live- well actually they can drive, but only as a supervised learner. You can't get your probationary license until you are 18. The largest section of people who are involved in car accidents is still probationary drivers, but it is getting better. You have to do at least 120 hours supervised driving before you can get your license and as a p-plater (probationary, first 3-4 years of license) there are many restrictions for example 0 blood alcohol limit, number of passengers allowed, restrictions on high performance vehicles.
#28
How about hiding the posts and restricting the postings of down voted people? The poster asked a question, we are answering. Or do our answers have to be popular or PC? Is that it? Ask me a question but only allow me to answer a certain way? For a forum that seems to be anti fascist, there seems to be a bit or fascist tendencies being practiced.
Final score:
5points
Istax 3 years ago
yesss!! I've noticed this EVERYWHERE around here and have been banned twice because I commented something the mods and BP community didn't agree with. I wish there was more tolerance for differing opinions :(
Marinasongs1432 3 years ago
Who the GOD DAMN F**K downvoted istax? They said something very true. If you are a troll random downvoter, get THE F**K out of this! This is a post for opinions, not downvoting. Sorry Istax, I gave you an uppie. And I’m talking about the post, not all of bp.
Load More Replies... Sunshine Daydream 3 years ago
Snowflakes don't believe in free speech, that’s why Elon, JK Rawling, and eventually Bill Maher are considered threats
#29
Fillers, botox and any kind of plastic surgery before age 21 and not until cleared by a psychiatrist.
Final score:
5points
Local foodie 3 years ago (edited)
I agree there should be an age limit but I don’t think a psychiatrist should be brought into it as they deserve free reign on what to do with their bodies without needing someone’s permission
#30
Central banks, pretty well everywhere, using interest rates to control their economies. Overwhelmingly, it's the poor who foot the bill for this fiscal 'management'.
Final score:
5points
#31
The whole gambling industry. Massive profits (and taxes) made from exploiting the weakness of so many people. In Australia every few months it's revealed that some casino operator has been helping launder criminal money. None lose their licence, promising to self-regulate better and make cultural changes. BS!
Final score:
5points
#33
Pineapple on Pizza Don't ask me why That's just illegal It's not about me being a half Italian anymore This is a serious Topic
Final score:
4points
Reyna Avila Ramírez-Arellano 3 years ago
Is it because it's a fruit? Tomatoes are a fruit too, I'm guessing you put tomato sauce on your pizza. Just because you don't like something doesn't mean you have to make it controversial. It's like Comic Sans!!
Fluffy mommy panda 3 years ago
Okay that just wrong if someone like something they eat you should never judge them. What if you like something that someone finds awful and disgusting. Would you like if they said hey that don't belong or tell you about it? No you wouldnt
Sunshine Daydream 3 years ago
Pineapple on pizza is great, especially since it goes on Canadian bacon / ham pizza. Go to Hawaii and i bet you get delish ham and pineapple there
#34
Pouring your milk before cereal!! A true crime punishable by DEATH! jkjk
Final score:
4points
#35
I think it should be illegal for bicyclists to be able to do whatever they want. Where I live, they refuse to use the lovely, well kept bike trail, instead using the tiny 2 lane road that is 10 feet away, and not using the bike lane on roads that do have marked lanes. They also blast through every stop sign on the trail (it's too difficult to stop & start again, they say) and half of the time ignore other traffic laws.
Final score:
4points
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Cyclists are supposed to follow the rules of the road. I once nearly hit a bicycler because he ignored a traffic sign.
#36
scalping
Final score:
3points
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Ticket scalpers are the worst! I hear tell this practice is illegal in some parts - it should be illegal EVERYWHERE. If there is a Hell, I hope it has a special extra-nasty place for scalpers.
#38
Influencers, outlaw them now, we don't need any more dumb people in the world, and these influencers are creating a generation of future stupid adults.
Final score:
3points
#39
Creepy old people who think it’s okay to mess with young kids. Especially when they are related.
Final score:
3points
#41
A gym that plays loud music to motivate the members. The world has their own headphones now, we do not need the personal trainer playing “DJ” on our behalf
Final score:
2points
#42
A$$holez. Being a lying, manipulative POS is not illegal. It should be.
Final score:
1point
#44
Voting against the legalisation of marijuana. I live in Australia..!!! .. and the government wants monies..they get monies from beer and smokes and gambling, generally f*****g each other so they can make monies and concerning themselves with the welfare of others or the planet because they are selfish f***s who don't care
Final score:
1point
#45
Standing in the middle of a hallway, walkway, aisle, etc blocking it for people who are actually using it for is purpose. I legit cannot stand people who stop in the middle of a walkway and have a conversation ornchecking their phone....MOVE TO THE SIDE YOU SELF ENTITLED IDIOT....its my biggest pet peeve in the world
Final score:
1point
#46
Communism and Marxism. More people were killed and enslaved under those ideologies than under the Rebel flag and Nazism combined.
Final score:
0points
Freya the Wanderer 3 years ago
Communism is bad and wrong, it doesn't work. However, you need to do a better fact check - not just the alleged facts, but their source. Does dying in a country that happens to be Communist count as "dying under Communism"? Only if the death is a result of the Communist regime. Also, six million Jews died in the Nazi death camps, along with 4-5 million other "untermenschen" such as gays, Romani and Slavs.
J.B. (Submission author) 3 years ago
A better fact check? Assuming you know what I read and what books fill my shelves, right? How far down the rabbit hole shall I venture before you are satisfied? Check my favorite author's sources? Then their sources? And so on and on? Several of my sources are first hand accounts. And when they speak of deaths associated to communism they speak of assassinations, executions of political rivals, starvation, and other communism related deaths. Why would they include others? That is ridiculous to even suggest that.
Load More Replies... J.B. (Submission author) 3 years ago
Defending it? What part of my statement implies defending the rebel flag? Is it the factual statement about communism that rubs you the wrong way? If I say that Ted Bundy killed more people than Lee Harvey Oswald am I defending Oswald? No, I am simply stating a fact. I know that facts are uncomfortable for many people in today's society, but facts don't care about what makes us feel good.
Load More Replies... #47
Again..I didn't read it all and I'm low on data after making some progress, front or back..?
Final score:
0points
#48
You remind me of my Court appointed clinician 😟
Final score:
0points
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