(October 19, 2014 at 11:24 pm)Chuck Wrote: Well, if the act is caught on camera, or overheard, a case against it may not need any live testimony.
I don't argue prosecution should always exercise the utmost rigidity regardless of whether it makes willing victim of a crime into the unwilling victim of zeal. Some times the credible threat of prosecution is enough.
But obviously real prosecution has to happen some of the time in sufficiently analogous cases for the threat of prosecution to work at other times.
There are plenty of cases where the victim want to prosecute for real prosecution to happen.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.