SOC 1500 Lecture Notes - Malum Prohibitum, Premarital Sex, Objectivist Periodicals
26 Mar 2014
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Social diversions that are most likely harmless such as lying. A high consensus in society that these behaviours are not tolerable. Crimes that are considered and agreed upon to be predatory. A law has been made to say that these offenses are wrong, but the public is most often split and is a matter of morals. Conflict over whether or not these should be seen as illegal behaviours. Marijuana, premarital sex, drug use, alcohol offenses, euthanasia. When an action or behaviour differs across culture. It may be acceptable in one culture but is not acceptable in another. In ontario in 1996 women were given the right to walk around topless, however in texas this is considered illegal. The age at which it is legal to consume alcohol. Drugs that were legal are no longer legal (cocaine in coca cola) It used to be illegal to commit suicide in canada. It depends on the context, the audience or the circumstances.
