Am I correct in saying that no country owns Antarctica or the Arctic? Whatever the case, no country owns Mars or the other planets. So if you bring someone to any of those locations and they agree to go, would you be allowed to do "bad" things to them?
No countries' laws would have effect there, correct? The laws that affect you are determined by whichever country owns the land you're in when you do the deed, correct?
Some random situations I thought up:
You volunteer to take some passengers on a boat to the Arctic. When you are there you kill them.
You are the parent of a 9 year old girl. You bring her to the Arctic and do deeds to her.
You go to Mars and make "illegal" explosives and drugs.
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Nothing is illegal on Mars. Just a moral grey area.
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On the mars one, though actually making them might not be illegal, sending them into countries where they are illegal would be an international incident.
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Whoever owns the part of Antarctica that you're committing the crime in has jurisdiction.
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The people you're killing are citizens of a country, so it's still illegal.
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Antarctica wouldn't work as it's owned my multiple countries Arctic i don't know It's pretty much the same as killing someone in a EEZ
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They had something like this on the simpsons. Some guy was trying to kill bart and he brought him to a place where five states intersected. He put bart in one area and he stood in another. When he shoots bart the bullet would pass through two states and kill bart. Making the crime nonpunishable.
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The laws of physics.
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Biblical law. God knows.
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Doesn't work in Antarctica because each country claims a seperate zone of it. Arctic is good though
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Edited by Chad Quibs : 3/15/2013 8:54:09 AMMaking bombs and drugs on mars would be extremely impractical, especially since making the stuff is only half of it. Getting the materials on a rocket to get there and then rockets to send back to buyers would cost more than your income. Also if you commit a crime in the Arctic I'm pretty sure you have to stay there so they can't charge you. Even so I'm pretty sure they would just go over there and bust your head in and bring you back to where you have citizenship. At least I think they can do that...