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Originally Posted by acidzebra
For something to be a crime, there has to be a victim.
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Sorry, but in the United States that is not correct, at least not in the sense that the victim has to be a person. In the U.S. there is always one victim: the people in the broad sense. Most times there is also an individual victim. A good example of a victimless crime in the U.S. is consensual prostitution; in this case, the "victim" is the people (broadly speaking), not an individual. Many moral crimes are victimless crimes.