What common thing should not only be banned, but criminalized with mandatory minimum sentences?

Driving a vehicle that can be heard over several suburan blocks

If you are going through a place with a drive through that wraps around the building and you pull up far enough to block the exit so that it fucks up the works and an employee has to come out and direct traffic to unfuck it you should have your license revoked. Clearly you don't have the situational awareness to be operating a motor vehicle.

Having wealth over 1000 times the median family income.

I'd prefer it was simply prevented via policy rather than punished if breached.
- I would prefer a mixed system. All wealth over 1000x the median household income taxed at 100%. So no one should have a fortune larger than that, a number that would be approximately $80 million today. But if you secretly gather a fortune much larger than that? If you somehow secretly amass a fortune 10,000x the median household income? At that point I would apply severe criminal penalties, like a mandatory minimum 20 year sentence. I don't want to throw the book at someone just because they accidentally let their fortune grow a bit beyond the limit. But if you're a whole order of magnitude above it? Then that's when severe criminal penalties should apply. At some point your wealth becomes so large that you personally become a threat to national security. Amassing a fortune in the billions should be treated like a private citizen trying to build their own nuclear bomb. No one should have that much power, and we should treat both the same.
Scale that back to 100x tops
- I like the 1000x threshold because that is approximately the maximum possible fortune one can amass in one's lifetime off of ordinary salary work and extreme frugality.
  1000x the median income would be about $80 million. Consider the highest-earning non-executive salaried employees - people who spend years in school in very challenging fields. People like neurosurgeons. Imagine if there was a couple composed of two neurosurgeons, and they earn very good salaries. They're also so frugal that they spend basically nothing. You have a pair of neurosurgeons literally sleeping on the sidewalk out front of the hospital. They live like that, and they invest and save every penny they can. The highest salaried incomes combined with pathological frugality.
  Even if they did all of that. Even if two highly educated workers lived off nothing and saved everything, even then those people would still struggle to earn, over their whole life, a fortune that exceeded 1000x the median household income.
  Such a system allows for a capitalism that actually does live up to the marketing. You're allowed to earn a fortune as large as your own labor and skills will allow. However, the only way to obtain a fortune larger than this is to get into the business of labor arbitrage - hiring other people and harnessing the surplus of their labor. I want people to be able to earn as much money from the sweat of their own brow as they can. But I don't want people to be able to hoard strategically dangerous fortunes by exploiting the labor of others. And 1000x the median household income is a nice even number that's easy to explain to people and that achieves this goal.

Telling any support staff individual

"It just says error."

Punishment compounded based upon the degree of detailed information you simply decided to not bother reading before seeking assistance.

Lol

It says software has encountered an error: blahblahblah, click ok to quit
Every fucking time they skip over the bit we actually need to hear

Private financing of political campaigns, lobbying, billionaire tax evasion, corporate personhood, corporate tax evasion, wealth over 100 million, private equity in housing or healthcare, employment dependent health insurance, misinformation presented as news, not enforcing laws on the wealthy, corporate subsidies, big farm subsidies(small community farms only), gerrymandering, for profit prisons and felons running for office.

Religion

Political lobbying and lifetime politicians.

Lying as a politician.

Advertising.

capitalist relations

Kittenhood. The minimum sentence: lifetime of cuddling, free food and play.

nooo not the cuddling!!

A lot of very important things have already been suggested and I agree with most. I won't just re-state what others have said, instead I'll suggest a pet peeve of mine.

People who say "I love that for you". It's like nails on a chalkboard to me, it's always said in such a condescending and disingenuous way by every person I've ever heard say it, I just can't stand hearing it now.

Well bless your little heart then...
That's the southern version.
- Well that explains the condescending tone. Thanks for the heads up.

Posting on TikTok. TikTok is an evil mind-virus control app. Posting on it, like other closed source apps, fuels surveillance capitalism and ccp communism.

Is the see see pee in the room with you right now?

earning more than 360,000 usd per year.

And how will Californians and New Yorkers be able to afford a new home next year?
- Housing costs will go down when demand drops due to enough people being imprisoned

Supporting the state of "israel" with financial or other material means.

Advertising, political parties and religions. All of them.

Political parties?
- Did I misspell all of them?

Leaving a shopping cart in a parking space instead of bringing it back to the cart shelter.

Cart narcs out ✊

Anytbing that annoys me personally.

Willful violations of the Constitution. Right now, elected officials can brazenly disregard the Constitution and the worst that happens is they are told not to do that again in the future, pretty please.

Production of cigarettes and tobacco.

As ex smoker who tried to quit so many times during almost two decades - I know how tough this drug can be and that it's wide acceptance as social norm makes it so much worse.

Because the war on drugs is working out great...
- What percentage of people smoke cigarettes compared to the percentage that do cocaine? Perhaps prohibition would dramatically reduce the number of users, even if that number is guaranteed to never reach 0?

Neighbors with dogs that bark all the time.

Attempting to mislead a person for financial gain.

That's already illegal? It used to be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obtaining_pecuniary_advantage_by_deception and is now just fraud.
- I believe, though I could be wrong, that for a person to be penalized for fraud, someone has to have suffer damages.
  I think it should be illegal to simply mislead for financial gain. Think ads that intentionally exaggerate thier products, influencers who will claim to love some product and use it all the time, when they have never even tried it. And media that puts such a heavy spin on things that in court they claim that no reasonable person would have believed what they are saying as a defense.
Yeah they should make fraud illegal
- Fraud, I believe, has a narrower definition than most of us think.
So basically all ads... I agree
- Don't forget car dealerships!
- Haha. Yep. I was going for subtle. :) I think ads that didn't mislead wouldn't be so bad. I do want to know about interesting new products... I just want to be able to trust the info. And choose when I see them.

"ask me later" on phone apps. No means no!

If there's also a "no" option it's fine, sometimes I even want the "ask me later"

elected officials stock trading

Circumcising a child.

Kind of pathetic how we still have to solve the issue of cutting up baby dicks as ritual.
Egypt's worse; they still cut off the clits of preteen girls as ritual.
Jews and Egyptians aren't even trying to hide it. They do it specifically to reduce the sensitivity of sexual organs.
Christians are the useful idiots (as always) who have been duped into thinking it's for 'medical' or 'aesthetic' purposes. In all honesty, Christians cut up the dicks of their kids because the dad's dick was cut up for him and he doesn't want to admit there's something wrong with it.
- Christians don't do it. Americans do it. And they did it for the same explicit reason as the others thanks to the psycho weirdo Kellogg of the cereal fame to try to prevent masturbation, and sexual pleasure.

Being cruel to other people by hiding behind some power imbalance.

I don't want to live in a society where the consequence for this behavior is a meaningless fine.

Is this not murder? There's no way he didn't contribute to her death even if she was already terminally ill. Stabbing a terminally ill person is murder, putting a newborn baby on the street under the guise of "it's in my property and it's not my kid" is murder, why isn't this? At least criminal negligence no?
Also, is Nanimo doing okay? Like, just in general, but is the housing situation as bad as Vancouver?

Killing animals

Put all wild meat eating animals in prison!
- Because animals are usually subject to human laws?
- Humans have the reasoning and introspection required to make the choice to not do unnecessary harm to animals, a lion does not.
I was asked to feed an outdoor cat in my neighborhood. I did. Several small animals have likely died because I helped one feel more comfortable. Do I need to go to prison.
I exist in USA where habitat is constantly destroyed for profit. There is no way for me to not be a part of this system. Should I be executed?
I fixed some damage to my home where there were carpenter ants digging in the wood. Not only did several likely die, but I also ruined their home. Shackle me to a trailer hitch.
- I should have been more specific. The point isn't about what predators do in the wild, or about accidental, unavoidable deaths. It's about the violence that is intentional, done on a massive scale, and most importantly, completely unnecessary. It all boils down to choice. A lion in the wild isn't having a moral debate about its next meal; it's just surviving. We, on the other hand, have tons of other options. Nobody's talking about punishing someone for accidentally stepping on a bug. It's about questioning the entire systems that treat living, feeling beings like they're just products for our pleasure or convenience, when it's totally avoidable.

Lobbying; at least in its current form. Corporations being treated as people when it benefits them, but not when it would hurt them. Executives not being held legally accountable for the harm they inflict. SJC-Legalized bribery (as “speech”). HOAs. The Bail system. Legislatures redistricting themselves. Racial profiling. ICE. For-Profit prisons. For-Profit Healthcare. Destroying our ecosystem for profit.

facebook

Noise making that disrupts other people's tranquility.

Yes! The amount of people who feel entitled to blast noise is too damn high! I was gonna comment on playing noise n speakers in public settings, but I'll happily pile on here.
Leaf blowers and my neighbor's power washer that emits a high pitched tone like a mosquito ringtone the whole time he runs it. It pierces my brain.
Disturbing the peace isn't illegal?
- The people using speaker on transit, or blasting external speakers while hiking through otherwise perfectly good woods… are disturbing the peace, sure. So are the college kids two floors up when they’re pre-gaming at 9pm. But the police would not take any of these calls seriously, unless the OP rule/law were in place.

Fixed prices for fines. These should be based on a fixed percentage, not fixed dollar amount, of a persons overall wealth. None of this bullshit that can bankrupt a poor person but be the price of admission for the rich.

Companies reporting price increases as "adjusting for inflation" when the price hike does not match inflation should have the entire C-suite going to the gulag. We need to unironically do what China does with its rich, terrorize them and make them walk on eggshells and hand out ridiculously harsh punishments to management when a business commits a crime.

Also, campaign promises made by politicians running for office should be legally binding. If something they said would happen did not happen, they should be tried for treason and the burden should be on them to prove beyond reasonable doubt that they tried everything they possibly could to keep the promise but forces they could not possibly overcome prevented them from succeeding. Maybe then they'll only promise things they actually intend to do.

Maybe you shouldn't be chomping at the bit to kidnap people and lock them in cages.

Not raising your children.

Transphobia

Is calling a MTF transperson a man considered 'transphobia' in your mind?
Do you honestly believe people should be imprisoned for it?
- Intentionally and knowingly calling a MTF trans person a man is transphobia. Dunno about jail, but I'd be down to have legally enforced punishment for that. To be fair, that should probably cover all cases of (intentionally and knowingly) misgendering people, in a similar fashion to defamation.
Anti LGBTQ+ bigotry in general.
This kind of bigotry has led to suicides of LGBTQ+ people and terrorist attacks against their communities. This is beyond "offending" someone.
- Bigotry in general. It is easy to not judge a book by its cover as long as you're not an illiterate, lazy-minded fuck.
They are allowed to be scared of trans people, no projecting it though.
- Ehhhhh... only for a time. If you're still a fearful cunt after having several positive experiences, then you're just a broken human, too chicken to ever grow to understand let alone improve the real world.
  It should still come down to behavior, though. Being afraid itself isn't bad. It's deciding that society needs to bend to your irrational fears where it becomes bigotry against reality.

Generally think mandatory minimums are unjust, but political corruption. It's wrong per se but also has downstream negative effects on society.

Puttering along in the left lane, at or below the speed limit. The left lane is for passing.

The left lane is for crime.
The left lane is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only.
- No, the left lane is for loading of passengers and there is no stopping in a RED lane.
According to the highway code, the left lane is the one you should stay in, the right lane is the fast lane, or for overtaking.

Capitalism

Killing animals to eat their flesh. Murder is fucked up, human or not.

Farming can be ethical. You'd get a lot more agreeing by simply saying, "factory farming".
A good farm should be giving the animals a better life than quite a lot of humans currently get. A statement that should be damning to both sides.
- You'd get a lot more agreeing by saying "Fuck it do whatever you want animals aren't people" so fuck your entire argument.
  Farming can be ethical.
  Oh? You can ethically rape someone? You can ethically murder someone? What do you think animal agriculture entails?
- I disagree, but i would be happier with better conditions. I still think murder is wrong, and I oppose it, but if you remove the torture aspect I admit you're doing dramatically less harm.
- Nope. They all end up in the same place with a knife to their throat.
Absolutely. And I further submit that if we're to think of ourselves as an intelligent, enlightened, civilized, and technological species, moving beyond our predatory instinct is one of the first prerequisites. Only once we completely stop exploiting animals can we in good faith say we're actually materially better than any other animal species. Until then we're just lions with computers.
What's the first thing we claim sets us apart from every other animal? Oh right, how humans aren't beholden to natural instincts and have advanced beyond mindless killing machines. We say while buying another hamburger because we can't even get past the primal urge to keep eating animal meat as soon as we taste it because that urge literally evolved in a time where the only choices were to hunt or starve. With all our technology you'd think we'd embrace more efficient ways of nutrient delivery.
- Only once we completely stop exploiting animals can we in good faith say we’re actually materially better than any other animal species.
  Step 1: stop the exploitation of other humans. This is gonna probably be the biggest roadblock not gonna lie.
Try telling that to the animals
- Animals don't share our sense of morality and it would be ridiculous to expect them to.
  We also don't typically arrest other species.
Murder is fucked up, human or not.
Couple issues with that. Murder is just illegal homicide. The homicide bit means it's definitively only dealing with humans, and the legal bit is only as fucked up (or not) as the law itself, and history is littered with examples of legality clashing with morality.
We have some really evil folks in this world and they're protected by the same laws as everyone else. Some of those evil people are doing things like running countries or mega-corporations or engaging in some other means of causing a massive scope of death and/or suffering. You find yourself in a position in which you could feasibly take their life - do you? It's illegal: very much murder. But allowing them to persist allows whatever evil they're inflicting on everyone else to also persist.
I know none of this is what you're talking about, but I see the word 'murder' pop up a lot in conversations like this, and it's just not the correct word for what you're trying to describe. You can make a solid case for the morality of veganism without relying on the connotation of buzzwords that aren't actually relevant.

tobacco should be treated at least as bad as weed

Prohibitionists make me sick. If only we could prohibit them from existing.
- there's more than one way for what i described: regulate tobacco like weed or regulate weed like tobacco, and having it ssomewhere in between of your choice

Alcohol and gambling. The death and suffering these cause is unfathomable. Just within my small social sphere I've encountered numerous people that have had their entire families ripped apart or destroyed by these, particularly alcohol.

Not to diminish the harms of alcohol, but the USA tried that once and it went pretty badly. Prohibition of other drugs has also led to considerable harm. The cure may be worse than the disease here.
- How did prohibition go badly in the case of alcohol?
  Are you talking about how there was resistance to it at all?
- It bugs me that the lessons were learned with alcohol but they've double downed on everything else
Are you going to pay my rent since apparently my life is yours to control?
- If alcohol and gambling only affected the lives of those partaking in them, then we wouldn't have a problem.

Letting your pet shit or piss on someone else's property without permission.

Abolish suburbs and reeducate everyone with suburb brain
- I'm not actually sure what this is intended to mean in this context.

AI

Alcool

How would Northern Europeans/Germanics socialize?!
- They could change their culture to stop being so boring.
- Socialize ? What for ????? 🤣
French

Not using your blinkers on a roundabout