That is interesting. If you know that there is a law which forbids an activity, and you violate that law even when knowing that you are the only witness to you having violated that law, then you become a witness against yourself. Then if you attempt to say to yourself (as a rationalization)' I didn't get caught', such a rationalization would be lieing to yourself.
Truth is fluid. Socialism is good. Homosexuality was once deviant now normal and good. It was okay to spank children now it is not. It was once okay to be a boy and a man now it is not. Men must be subservient to women. The truth changes for group to group and culture to culture. One person's lie is another person's truth. Truth is fluid. If truth is so fluid, how can ANYTHING be a lie? For that matter, how can anything be real?
Those all seem like they might make interesting topics on philosophy.. Why don't you make a new thread on each of those points?
Truth is not fluid; morality and opinion are. Spanking is. Whether it is good for the child is an opinion that has changed. Whether it is moral has also changed with society. Truth not being fluid, lies become possible. If you fail to believe in reality, I have an experiment for you: Step one: place your thumb on a solid, hard flat surface. Step two: take a hammer and strike your thumb vigorously several times. Question: were the hammer and your thumb real?
No, they were not. The hammer went right through my thumb. It phased through my thumb because we are all not fully solid and there are gaps within the electrons, protons, and neutrons that we are made up of.
Nope! I visually surveyed the area closely before taking that pee to make sure that I was not being viewed by any of the localized humans. Now if the birds, and insects, and other living things in woods want to press charges against me, then they are all welcomed to do so.
Not what THE LAW says....indecent exposure doesn't just apply "if there's somebody around". You run around naked in the woods....you're breaking the law....even if there is nobody around for miles. Besides YOU are there...and as "someone" just said- "you violate that law even when knowing that you are the only witness to you having violated that law, then you become a witness against yourself."
You do know that when you're running around naked in your own home completely by yourself with all the shades down you're engaging in pornography, right?
Oh my goodness. Everytime I pee in the woods, I am sincerely convicted that I have violated a law of man, however, I have fulfilled a law of nature. Now you are changing the goal posts by suggesting that I 'run around the woods naked'. Tsk Tsk... shame on you.
That's not pornography. The "graphy" part of the word specifically means it has to be recorded in some way. So it isn't porn unless you happen to have a nanny cam or something that is recording you. Furthermore, IIRC (I'm at work and don't want to risk looking it up), porn is partially legally defined by the "work" having no value other than to satisfy prurient interests, or something like that. That's why a lot of old porn videos have a message on them stating something like "This video is created as a work of art and does not intentionally stimulate or satisfy the prurient desires..." and etc. At least that's what mine used to say on them. Someone frolicking about in the nude can pretty easily be construed as art rather than porn. Finally, I don't think that the creation of pornography is illegal, but rather the sale of it. And that's assuming that "pornography" is what is actually illegal rather than "obscene material."
If you claim you were afraid your bladder would burst, doing you serious injury, I'm pretty sure you could get away with it. According to the OP, 'not being punished' appears to be the same as 'not illegal'.
