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Number of cumulative years they would be imprisoned for, had they been caught and convicted of every single crime they ever committed.
I'm betting most adults are not at zero.
Lame. In Russia they d give you 10 years for thinking that killing neighbours is bad
Crime is such a subjective, context and time dépendant metric that it makes no sense to use here.
Are you one of those people who thinks things being legal equates to things being moral?
I'd say the opposite. Seeing that number over everyone's head oughta be a good way to prove that law ain't aligned with morals.
This wouldn't impart any useful information in a world where rapist pedophiles get time served and protesters get a life sentence for being adjacent to another crime handing out zines.
Nobody's at zero. It's been said that the average American commits 3 felonies per day. The law is so long that you couldn't read it in a lifetime. There are more criminalized actions than you can imagine.
I've been in possession of weed enough times that my number would probably be higher than someone who murdered a couple of people but never had weed on them.
I feel like this would be a misleading measure. My dad has been self medicating anxiety, adhd, trauma, and potentially autism with pot for about 40 years, in our state an oz is 6 months on first offence. If we only count that on his usual consumption rate, baring any time he's got extra, tried other things, or the myriad of other dubious things he's gotten into, he's lookimg at 1,440 years in jail. If you add anything about quality, growing, having large amounts, that's going to skyrocket. In comparison, a double homicide nets you 100 points in this hypothetical.
Put my stoner dad next to a serial pedophile with 10 victims below the age of 12 and my dad looks like a fucking monster.
Oh, I'm probably up to 1000 years just for listening to music from the internet.
Maybe the number should exclude victimless crimes.
Fuck, I didn't think about that. The only reason I didn't starve to death in highschool was the money i made torrenting moves and selling bootlegs of new or obscure films and games. I'd make Manson look like rookie numbers...
Nah, it's more fun to guess if the dude with 1000 years over their head is a serial killer of was in high school during the Napster/Gnutella years
this is going to be of limited use do to wierd laws and going to be vastly different for someone country by country
Why?
You can't fix it until you can measure it.
If everyone knew this number about everybody, a lot of stupid laws would change overnight.
This works only if all laws are correct. Otherwise you end up seeing "100 years" for copyright infringement. In the world you imagined, who cares why they have 100 years on em? The never-can-be-bad law is always correct, and a 100 year sentence is always just and good. Otherwise who gives a fuck?