Philosophy 2080 : Essay on Main Ideas
7 Feb 2012
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Harmless immoralities y types of offence, such as porn offences should there be criminal laws against harmless immoralities? y explained by the moral disgust which people feel toward the activities existence rather than for any real setbacks they experience. If an activity is thought by the vast majority to be morally permissible and is completely harmless then there will be and ought to be no criminal law against it y. The first large point y persons who suffer punishment at the hands of the state must personally deserve it y regina v. parks: parks while walking in his sleep killed his mother-in-law. In fagan v. commissioner of metropolitan police the accused accidentally reversed his car upon a policeman s foot and left it there. Just walked away from the situation doing nothing. The defendant fagan was convicted of assault upon the constable.
