What is currently legal but you think should be illegal?

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I think adultery should be illegal. Uh...I don't intend for this thread to be an argument thread, so please stay on topic and just list what you think should be illegal but it is currently legal where you live.

Alcohol (even thought i do enjoy it from time to time, it is still the root of much illness and destruction)
Tobaco
Monosoidum Glutomate and any combination of concentrated "naturally" derived glutomate compounds added into food
Aspartame
Pesticides
Herbicides
Planned Obsolescence
Wealthy people not sharing wealth with the extremely poor

Probs lots more but cannot think right now.

There isn't anything I can really think of.

Nannying for-your-own-good authoritarianism, perhaps?

Piercing guns should be illegal.
Can't be cleaned so cause infection and risk HIV and hepatitis, blunt force trauma causes excessive damage, higher risk of shock, guns malfunction, jewellery is unsuitable so risks allergies as well as infection, and they're operated by sales assistants with little training - professional piercers are trained for a reason, and they'd never use a gun. People are so nonchalant about piercings so don't research it, worse still parents get their babies ears pierced with guns without even considering the risks, which are increased in young children.

Fireworks should be illegal.
Or at least illegal for every Tom, Dick and Harry to buy them - too many stupid kids and moron charver scum buy them, as well as a general nuisance noise-wise you always end up with people, animals and property being harmed either accidently or on purpose - I say you should only get to buy them if it's for a legal organised firework display where there is at least one person with training and certification.

Edit - There are many harmful chemicals and toxins in every day products like toiletries, food, cigarettes, and companies have FAR too much power when it comes to manufacturing and what they put into products, more power than government and unless something is shown to be an immediate major health risk nothing is done. So there are probably a lot of ingredients and chemicals that I think should be illegal.

Last edited by Bloodheart on 15 Apr 2011, 4:59 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Everything this guy said, but including fluoride.

Alcohol and tobacco are harmless and harm no-one but the person indulging. So on that basis I'm quite heavily against restricting people's pleasures - there's far too much of that sort of sentiment in this country already!

I forgot that one. Luckily Scotlands water is not fluoridated yet, but the Brittish Medical Association is still pushing for it. I know that Southhamptom has been Fluoridated even though medical professionals advised the judge not to.

The facts speak for themselves. Ingestion of Fluoride has been conclusively linked to lower IQs as well as not making a significant impact for dental health

http://www.hpa.org.uk/web/HPAwebFile/HP ... 7169969666

http://www.maebrussell.com/Fluoride/Col ... teeth.html

http://www.fannz.org.nz/history.php

http://www.fluoridealert.org/

I hope this thread does not end in a an argument about the safety of fluoride, so lets continue the list...

I believe killing animals for the skin should be illegal.
Carrying weapons should have a larger sentence
McDonalds and other fast food chains should not be allowed to cut down rainforest to grow soya beans to feed live stock for cheap produce
Same as above for cheap microwave meal meat

You have a very valid point you know. I am all for people having choice but I feel very against something when I see people all around me ending up into a destructive pattern of substance misuse.

I feel that encouraging someone to commit suicide should be illegal. If merely threatening someone is a crime, then I think that actually driving someone to kill themselves should be criminalized as well.

We'll not get into the arena of mentioning that the British health establishment, aided by the pharmaceutical companies, are promoting their hideous nicotine patches, which have an extremely low success rate while attempting to ban e-cigarettes, which have a much better chance of helping the smoker to quit.

lol Arena is a very suitable word for it

In many ways it is. Like a person who is bullied to a point of suicide. The bullies usually doesn't go free. They can face criminal charges, its just that the charges are something related to "bullying" rather than "encourage suicide."

I feel that Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church should be disbanded by the police. I also think that neo-nazi rallies should be illegal.

*cough* Or suppressing Easyway that has a 90% success rate.

I also think that parents controlling their adult children's lives (age 18+, or maybe set some other age) should be illegal. This one is kinda fluid but think about it like this...how a parent treats other people's kid or other people is how they should treat their adult children. So no grounding them or preventing them from going somewhere. No disapproving of bfs/gfs. You may use words to try to convince your adult child not to do something, but in the end, the decision must be respected. Of course, the above mentioned only applies if your adult child is not doing something illegal.

*nods*

When you begin to understand that there's quite a lot of corruption going on it all makes sense. Which means that now, whenever I go to the GP, I always take care to think for myself and don't just believe what they tell me. Which includes doing my own research first. They hate that.

I tend to feel that there are too many laws already. I'd rather see the number of laws reduced and simplified, so we don't need to invent new ones every week or two. For example, instead of creating new laws to ban individual chemicals, they are automatically banned if they fail certain safety tests. I feel like my country is being strangled by legislation.