As I predicted, you are okay with prosecuting victimless crimes (ouch, I used a liberal catch phrase, 10 demerits for me), which is your opinion.<p>In any case, we&#x27;re on a slippery slope conditioning the masses for control.  I marvel at it.  I wonder what&#x27;s next, jail time for prohibited speech and later prohibited thoughts?<p>&gt; You are entitled to your opinion of what should and should not be a crime, but it probably doesn&#x27;t help discussing those to redefine the word &quot;crime&quot; to mean &quot;thing that EdSharkey thinks should be a crime&quot; and &quot;pre-crime&quot; to mean &quot;actual violation of criminal law that EdSharkey doesn&#x27;t think should be a crime&quot;.<p>Am I <i>really</i> entitled to my opinion, though?  It sounds like I probably shouldn&#x27;t be entitled to an opinion due to my dangerous ideas.<p>(BTW, you had a run-on sentence there.  You probably want to break that up so that others don&#x27;t nitpick you parenthetically, but I took your meaning.  I want you to know that I empathize and figure you were probably writing that on-the-go and didn&#x27;t have a chance to fully wordsmith it.  I don&#x27;t think lesser of you even when what you write has flaws.)<p>Stepping away from my devil&#x27;s advocate role for this thread for a bit ... IRL I have kids too, and I struggle with freedom issues like this.  I have had crackups with distracted drivers that messing with cellphone, kids, and eating&#x2F;smoking behind the wheel that I suspect are way more dangerous than your average drunk that can hold his drink and regularly drives.  I was rear-ended on the freeway going freeway speed (not braking) by a guy screwing around on his cellphone.  (Gasp, I used &#x27;braking&#x27; not &#x27;breaking&#x27;!  English is hard! ;)<p>What can you do?  Life is so dangerous.  How much freedom do you surrender before you feel secure??  Fear drives people into oppression.