Week 3 Lecture

Family Guy: Stealing from Shops: I think stealing from shops is just as bad as stealing from someone's home. Yeah, okay, they get the insurance back on it. But some people who have home insurance, would also get the insurance back on the stolen item. The thing that gets to be the most, is people stealing something from a shop just for the hell of it. They might not need the item at all, so it was just really a waste of time. Stealing from a shop you're also stealing from their profits, the item isn't just some thing (e.g. deep fat fryer), it's money. Money that some of these stealers don't have or do have. One thing I don't mind, is people who haven't got any money stealing food, such as homeless people. The jobcentre screw them over. You can't sign on without an address and you can't get a bedsit, house or flat without money. If the jobcentre did a scheme where if you're homeless they'll help you find somewhere to live, even if it's just a council house or even a Bed and Breakfast, it's at least a roof over there head and then they can get their money.

I think people with money that steal, do it for the kicks or because they think they're entitled to the object that they're stealing. It's just sad that we have people in this society like that. Too lazy to actually get they're purse/wallet out and pay for an item. It won't hurt them.

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/health_problems/learning_problem/stealing.html

Breakfast at Triffany's: Prostitution: I don't think it's prostitution when you take money, not knowing that the other person believes that they will get sex in return. But, if you have already agreed that the money is for sex, then I would class that as prostitution. Even though, that it has been stated that the money is for sex, the woman/man always have their option to say no, if they want to. But they should give the money back if this is so, as they're ripping someone off.

I don't know how you could class taking money for sex, isn't prostitution? To me, that is prostitution. There's nothing else it could be. And it's socially less respectable these days. Maybe it was accepted years ago, but these days, it's like why? The only use there is for prostitutes is for men/women who can't get in a relationship, because they're weird or something. (Maybe someone should start up a weird dating agency?)

A reasonable charge for prostitution? I would say five hundred, if it was me that was a prostitute. But I have a friend, who at one stage in her life, was a prostitute and I know she used to earn fifty quid a bloke. Though, I think it also depended on what they wanted her to do. Twenty five for a blowjob, fifty for sex, seventy-five in the ass and a hundred for kinky stuff.