The Illustrated Guide to Criminal Law
Chapter 14: Do or Die
Duress pg 9: Forced to Kill
It seems that Snitchy McSnitcherson ratted out one Horde brother too many, and they want him dead.
[Note: This appeared four years before the delightful “Boaty McBoatface”]
The van, with a bumper sticker “We are the 1%,” passing a rattler on a desert road.
BIKER 1
Well, we believe it is right and just that Snitchy must die.
But the law says it’s wrong, and would punish us for killing him.
BIKER 2
Right, which is why Stu here is going to shoot him for us.
BIKER 1
But that’s what I’m saying: Is it right to make someone else enforce our morality?
I mean, personally I believe that enforcing morality is a pretty icky thing to do in general. Like, yeah, some people need incentives to not exploit or harm others, but like – why does there need to be a specific law against, say, prostitution? Or polygamy? Or possessing the feathers of a migratory bird?