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What stops you doing illegal stuff?

  • 09-11-2010 05:12PM
    #1
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭


    I'm a bit surprised to see so many people on the if time stood still thread saying they'd do something illegal. Is it only fear of getting caught that stops normally law-abiding people from stealing, etc?

    Maybe I'm more naive than I thought.


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  • #2
    phasers
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,159 ✭✭✭✭phasers


    I don't want to get shanked in the hooskow


  • #3
    Biggins
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 34,567 ✭✭✭✭Biggins


    4 Children, a wife that knows how to swing a golf club and I don't wish to do anything that would bring shame on the family.


  • #4
    strobe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,872 ✭✭✭strobe


    I do illegal stuff all the time.....


  • #5
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 45,496 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    I can't even leave my house with this pesky monitor on my leg..

    .. but if I could, I'd rob you, yore ma, yore ma's ma and yore ma's ma's ma!


  • #6
    Diapason
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 452 ✭✭Diapason


    strobe wrote: »
    I do illegal stuff all the time.....

    Recording Major League Baseball without their express written permission doesn't count.


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  • #7
    Sgt. Bilko 09
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,483 ✭✭✭Sgt. Bilko 09


    Biggins wrote: »
    a wife that knows how to swing a golf club .
    Best Answer ever haha


  • #8
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    The Ludovico Technique


  • #9
    Kimono-Girl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,160 ✭✭✭Kimono-Girl


    my moral compass?:p



    honestly? what stops me is my partner and my child...


  • #10
    Tigger
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,701 ✭✭✭✭Tigger


    depends on the thing and why its illegal

    drugs etc i never really worried about the law or whatnot only stopped because they can be an issue after your twentys

    theft etc would depend on the circumstances as in i wouldn't steal from an old lady but if i found a bag of money with a bag of drugs in it i'd go look a bag of drug money and take the money leave the drugs as my moral code would allow that

    bad thinks like sexually or violently assaulting people i don't do because i'm not a psycho


  • #11
    gsxr1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,167 ✭✭✭gsxr1


    I like to provide a good example to my child


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  • #12
    Sykk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,327 ✭✭✭Sykk


    The police?


  • #13
    Johnny Bitte
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,099 ✭✭✭Johnny Bitte


    Moral compass, fear of prison, shame on my family! Thats it for me. Getting this problems fixed shortly with therapy so should be on the streets robbin in no time!


  • #14
    CreepingDeath
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,015 ✭✭✭CreepingDeath


    gsxr1 wrote: »
    I like to provide a good example to my child

    Of what ?


  • #15
    marzic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 784 ✭✭✭marzic


    I may/maynot, alledgedly, have done some legally ambiguous things in my time. I'd love to be able to elaborate cos the sheer brazen neck that it took is impressive (even if i say it me self), and i would but you'd get the usual knobs who'd ruin the fun by saying "this is a public forum and you've just admitted to fraud or whatever blah, and shame on you and you are like the fcukin cnuts that got the country into this mess!"... so i wont.

    I am now however not as likely to do these things cos I wouldnt be able to tell her indoors cos she have some kind of wifey 'sh1t attack-think of the children' type of conniption. I do skip the odd months cartax when its "off the road";)


  • #16
    ejmaztec
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 24,369 ✭✭✭✭ejmaztec


    basquille wrote: »
    I can't even leave my house with this pesky monitor on my leg..

    .. but if I could, I'd rob you, yore ma, yore ma's ma and yore ma's ma's ma!


    Are you Burke or Hare?


  • #17
    bluto63
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,228 ✭✭✭bluto63


    Morality


  • #18
    Son Of A Vidic
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,370 ✭✭✭✭Son Of A Vidic


    Since it's not legal to do illegal stuff, I'm not into illegal stuff because of the fact it''s not legal.


  • #19
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    fear of being passed around like currency in prison


  • #20
    Sharkey 10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Sharkey 10


    Nothing stops me i do things i want unless i beleive them to be wrong , I never agreed to abide by the law of this land. I break the law on a regular basis and i suspect most others here do also


  • #21
    Sharkey 10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Sharkey 10


    bluto63 wrote: »
    Morality
    Maybe there is times you may break the law in an action that is morally correct


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  • #22
    AnonoBoy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 22,559 ✭✭✭✭AnonoBoy


    My ma makes her disappointed face when I get in trouble.




























    Go crazy with that one AH!


  • #23
    fizzynicenice
    Closed Accounts Posts: 466 ✭✭fizzynicenice


    I always break the law. But only stupid laws. Like drug laws. And graffiti laws.


  • #24
    Sharkey 10
    Closed Accounts Posts: 552 ✭✭✭Sharkey 10


    fizzynicenice wrote: »
    I always break the law. But only stupid laws. Like drug laws. And graffiti laws.

    I agree about the drugs but i dont agree about graffiti , for example if everyone disliked the graffiti bar you, then its not a stupid law unless its your property .
    Damn i sound like a libertarian .


  • #25
    scientific1982
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,562 ✭✭✭scientific1982


    Diapason wrote: »
    I'm a bit surprised to see so many people on the if time stood still thread saying they'd do something illegal. Is it only fear of getting caught that stops normally law-abiding people from stealing, etc?

    Maybe I'm more naive than I thought.
    Depends what the illegal stuff is. If it hurts myself or other people I dont do it because I have a sense of self preservation and empathy. Having said that ive done a lot of illegal things in my time.


  • #26
    Mint Sauce
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 29,293 ✭✭✭✭Mint Sauce


    I dont want to find out what happens if I drop a bar of soap in the shower block.


  • #27
    Pherekydes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭Pherekydes


    Time.

    It won't stop for long enough.


  • #28
    Princess Peach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,698 ✭✭✭✭Princess Peach


    The fear of prison rape.

    I don't like cucumbers.


  • #29
    jimthemental
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,004 ✭✭✭jimthemental


    I break the law all the time. But I would have gotten away with it too if it hadn't been for those pesky kids!


  • #30
    hobochris
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,163 ✭✭✭hobochris


    There's this midget that follows me around and punches me in the nuts every time I think about doing something illegal.





    Luckily I can outrun him.. My nuts do get sore sometimes though..


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  • #31
    smk89
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,163 ✭✭✭smk89


    If I did get caught my prison just isn't the best place for a person with an ass so white as mine


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