@ShowMeYourLibrary @freepatriot It would be interesting to speculate on what a victimless crime might be.
Is a married man paying $500 for consensual sex with an escort a victimless crime?
Is buying cocaine from a cartel that routinely hangs people from bridges to enforce its monopoly on running a Mexican town a victimless crime?
Is having buttsex where the recipient picks up diseases that he then spreads to others a victimless crime?
Now, I am sure there are a few truly victimless crimes out there. For example, some towns make it against the law to grow anything edible on your property.
But I think when most people think of "victimless crimes" they are generally talking about sexual and drug behaviors.
But these things have effects far beyond the individual(s) directly engaging in them.
A few years ago there was a local news anchor -- married with kids -- who rented a male prostitute and shoved methamphetamine rocks up his ass while getting pounded ... and he died from the overdose. Was he the only victim?
Many of the drugs available out there are far from harmless, and highly addictive. Even if completely legal and pure, there would still be gobs of overdose deaths -- deaths of people's sisters, brothers, sons, daughters -- and it is absolutely heart-wrenching.
Although I will admit some truly victimless crimes undoubtedly exist, the things most people think of as "victimless" often have victims in the long run who never had a choice in the matter.