What should be against the law

Luckily, Payday Loans are illegal in 14 states. In these states, people short on cash can use online community lending sites. At least no federal law. Why are there virtually no laws regarding this practice? Probably because we can only imagine that someone who would do such as thing either had no choice think Donner party or they were completely insane. You are innocently surfing the internet and click on a site that looks good. If you want a case of road rage in the worst way, find me someone who thinks that they are so special, that their care deserves two parking spaces.

In most states and towns, there are no real laws forbidding taking up two or more spaces. Of course, if you are using two metered spaces, you need to pay both meters, but some people are apparently willing to do that. After looking at the spreadsheets, you realize that you could make oodles more cash simply by increasing the price. People need insulin, so they will have to pay it, right?

Shkreli is in jail now, but not for increasing drug prices. Capitalism is alive and well in the USA, which means drug companies can increase prices for little or no reason and YOU are stuck with it. Why has congress failed to address this issue? The answer can be summed up in one word: Lobbying. No good deed goes unpunished and that is certainly the case here.

Oh, by the way, it is perfectly legal to stand by and do nothing. How backasswards is this? If you are reading this, you most likely remember the housing crash of Super PACS can be unions or corporations and you will never know it since they are going by another name. This is a deceptive practice that should be outlawed or at least have laws created that force Super PACS to disclose who they really are.

Raise your hand if you have cut yourself or cursed like a drunken sailor while trying to open a clamshell package. While manufacturers think that clamshell packaging is terrific since it not only protects the product but helps to stop items from being stolen, consumers around the world hate it with a passion. In addition to cuts and even cases of severed fingers, there is the seriously eye rolling issue of plastic waste.

There are hundreds of less costly, equally secure means of packaging items without ruining fingers and without all the plastic waste. Cut your fingers or cut out the clamshells! Although it makes sense in some ways, this remains legal because of what is called the slippery slope.

Today, you can make it illegal to drink or smoke while pregnant to protect the child, but what about taking a vacation to a foreign country? Doing yoga? How about running a marathon while pregnant or operating a lawn mower barefoot? While this might seem silly, the slippery slope argument is very real.

Making the woman responsible for the health of her fetus is something most people are loathed to put on the law books. One of the great things about the USA is the freedom to raise your children as you see fit.

The word, fit, however means different things to different people. Child beauty pageants are solely for girls, which teaches them from a very young age that they are only valued for their looks.

Even if children are singing and dancing, which is a good thing, they should do so in age-appropriate costumes and songs. A 6-year-old singing My Milkshake and twerking is just plain wrong. Because in America, you are free to be a really bad parent, it appears. It remains a mystery to many why churches, pastors, and other religious organizations pay no taxes. Believe it or not, the Supreme Court feels that this is a free speech issue. People, on the other hand, believe that taxing churches shows equality under the law.

Perhaps politicians fear the wrath of god will prevent their re-election if they propose this? Such was the dextrous use of industrial language by one of the show's writers, Ian Martin, that he was bestowed with the title of "swearing consultant".

Martin would never seek to defend anyone verbally abusing police officers. However, he cautions against blanket attacks on profanity - the lexicon of which, after all, derives power from its own waywardness. Just in terms of cadence, the way the words fall in a sentence, the poetry of language," he says. Its impact depends entirely on context. There's a huge difference between watching someone swear on the telly and watching someone swear outside a primary school.

If your swearing can make people laugh it's a subversion of the transgression. If Martin is right and humour undermines the shock value of taboo terms, it might follow that comedy, not the courts, is the best way of tackling verbal abuse.

Of course, others will seek more formal methods of redress. The debate will continue - very courteously, no doubt. Does the ubiquity of swearing mean there is no point gagging it? Your mother might demand that you wash your mouth out. View comments. I'm looking for advice Did you know Liberty offers free human rights legal advice? View This. I want to know what my rights are Find out more about your rights and how the Human Rights Act protects them View This. Home » « Your human rights » No punishment without law.

On this page: No punishment without law. Retrospective offences. Fair and just penalties. Article 7 in action. Tiit Veeber's story.

This right, protected by Article 7, means that: No one can be found guilty of a crime that was not a crime under the law at the time it was committed, and Anyone found guilty of a criminal offence cannot have a heavier penalty imposed on them the penalty that was applicable at the time they committed the crime.

Retrospective offences It is fundamental to the rule of law that behaviour is only punished if it breaks a law that predates the offending behaviour.