Imagine the business opportunities
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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.
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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I imagine there would be a group of people in each company with special contracts for hazard pay to work on purge day.
Just regular pay, but with the promise of a Friday pizza party.
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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.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Within 4 hours of announcing that a "purge night" was a thing, they would have to revise it to just call it "murder night" and even then, it will get further modified to "Murder of sanctioned people and groups night" and even THEN they will have to further amend it until it finally says "The police get to murder you night" and then they will want to remove the nightly restriction and then BAM you have what we have now.
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The actual purpose of the Purge if to make tax fraud legal for 24 hours so the rich can somehow pay even less taxes.
They don't need a purge night to commit tax fraud, the do it every day, for vast, vast sums of wealth.
If they had a purge night in real life, they would quickly amend it to just "murder" night. Lest the poors get an idea that they too could exploit the system.
Then they would amend it again because they don't want to get murdered. So it will be "Murdering approved people and groups night" but that also has a chance of backfiring if someone wealthy or the people protecting them could be at risk, so they will just change it to "The police get to murder you night" and then they will shrug and remove the nightly restriction, and then there you go... our current system.
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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.
It's not "stolen" because stealing is a crime but you took it on
free balloonPurge Day. It's just something you have now. -
Soon they'll come for the thousandaires. You shouldn't exist!
Ooh look at mr hundredair over here, thinking he's better than the rest of us. You'll get what's coming to ya, pal.
And don't think for one second that I'll be turning a blind eye to the rest of you positive balance freaks.
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What about the seizure and occupation of vacant private property?
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Within 4 hours of announcing that a "purge night" was a thing, they would have to revise it to just call it "murder night" and even then, it will get further modified to "Murder of sanctioned people and groups night" and even THEN they will have to further amend it until it finally says "The police get to murder you night" and then they will want to remove the nightly restriction and then BAM you have what we have now.
Just like that, you have moved any books written about the Purge from fiction to non-fiction.
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Just like that, you have moved any books written about the Purge from fiction to non-fiction.
I haven't watched the movies in depth, but the premise alone speaks to me of a subtext that leads to this understanding about our world.
