Crime Conundrum

[TwigtheWonderkid]

So this question was posed to me the other day.

You are suddenly granted a superpower, whereby you can put a stop forever to any crime of your choosing. Name the crime you want to stop, and you can stop it. But......in order to put a stop to it, you have to commit the crime.

So that kind of rules out stuff like genocide, because you'll have to commit it to stop it in the future. It's the kind of lateral thinking question you might get is some executive interview.

There's no right answer as such, if you want to end drink driving, get yourself over the limit, drive 10 yards down the road, park up, hopefully don't get caught, and drink driving is over forever. I was eventually given what I guess is the most sensible answer, which I thought was quite clever. Let's see if anyone comes up with it. Or something better perhaps.

Over to you guys.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

Crusoe said:

Turn someone's life support off committing murder the turn it back on.

Do you wait for them to die before turning it back on? If not, you haven't committed murder. If so, you have. They might have recovered. Are you comfortable doing that? I wouldn't be.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

SteveScooby said:

Perjury? Nobody can ever lie in court again.

That's the one. Commit a minor offence, speeding, refuse the NIP, go to court, lie and say the equipment must be faulty. Lose the case, take the increased fine and the points, and change the world. No one can ever lie in court again. No need for juries, the guilty will admit it and those pleading not guilty must be innocent.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

105.4 said:

The Police don’t pay you to incriminate yourself, just as you don’t pay them to come and do your job for you. An assumption of innocence must be upheld at all times until guilt can be proven beyond reasonable doubt.


To answer the OPs question, I’d become a MP, lie to parliament, lie to the press, lie to my constituents, ignore the will of the people whom I pretend to represent, all while lining my own pockets through greed, vice and corruption, and dangerously meddle in the affairs of other countries in the hope of starting wars, just to appease my wealthy backers, big business, the arms industries and the banks.


Put a stop to all of the above and you really would change the world for the better !

But most of those aren't criminal offences. It's not illegal for an MP to lie to parliament, lie to the press, lie to my constituents, ignore the will of the people whom they pretend to represent, all while lining their own pockets through greed and dangerously meddle in the affairs of other countries in the hope of starting wars, just to appease their wealthy backers, big business, the arms industries and the banks.

So that won't work.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

JuanCarlosFandango said:

What was the sensible answer that you were given OP?

As I explained upthread, perjury.