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...fraudulent), but as with all great scam artists, his success depends entirely on the willingness of his victims to suspend disbelief, Or, putting it another way, to allow their greed to override their common sense. What we have in The Hoax is the record not so much of a victimless crime, but of a self-victimizing crime...
...with a guy, usually begets a terse, “Sorry, dude.” At any rate, considering that none of us seems to be looking for any real human connection, and that anonymity is part of the Craigslist code of ethics, these fibs feel like victimless crimes...
...been lied to (Kennedy repeatedly denied in interviews any problem with alcohol) is likely to pounce hard in revenge. But denial is built in to alcoholism: there ought to be someone, somewhere in a British newsroom who can verify that. And as lies go, Kennedy's were fairly victimless. No, there's definitely a dose of false sanctimony in the rush to trash Kennedy's mea culpa. It recalls the frenzy last autumn with which the British press jumped on model Kate Moss, after pictures seemed to show her snorting cocaine in a London studio. (Last week, a Metropolitan Police...
...country in the 1960s. But the interior of his wooden cottage, perched on the rainforest-covered heights above Wewak, confirms his fascination with tribal objects. Eerie hook-nosed masks and giant carvings cover the walls. Twenty years a dealer, Stuttgen defends the sale of skulls, saying, "It is a victimless crime. I was just trying to help the (local) people. They brought them here. I just helped them mail them," he says. The skulls were not genuine but imitations, he insists, so there could be no loss of cultural heritage and no crime committed. "There are almost no old ones...
...like to think that in America, we are autonomous at least to the extent that we can determine our own morality so long as it doesn’t infringe on the rights of others. Whose rights are violated by homosexual marriage? Homosexual marriage appears to be about as victimless as a “crime?...