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    10 months ago

    Or you steal someone’s car and drive it to work the day after. Is it yours? Do you pay for the tag and get a title? Or do you awkwardly give it back?

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        It’s yours, but administratively how is it yours? The title didn’t get processed on Purge day. Is possession sufficient on non-purge days? Do you have to get it registered within 24 hours of the purge?

        How do you prove that it was stolen on The Purge day?

        For that matter, how do you prove who owns a house? How do you steal a house on Purge day?

        If not a house, what about a factory?

        Can you own a city? On The Purge can you take over a state? Can you secede from the country?

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    10 months ago

    Why does everyone jump to murder?

    “what did you do on purge night?”

    “I took everything from the local Walmart and now drive a fararri on weekends and a Maserati on week days.”

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      I would be surprised if all major companies didn’t have ex military security for that night, probably could even pay employees less to extend purge night protections to them and their families in the process. Though that wouldn’t be without risks.

      No matter the situation, if capitalism exists, corporations and Uber rich win, no matter what the movies show.

      For me I’d probably prep for mad max/death race style racing on purge night, I’d love it so much.

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    If you try to kill someone but they don’t die until after the Purge, is that murder or does it still count as part of the Purge?

    Also, if you kill someone the day after the Purge or even like 20 minutes after or something, could they find out?

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      10 months ago

      crime show episode where someone kills often before the purge and preserves the bodies to be found on purge day

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    I bet it would be like weed in recreational states. Unless there’s some federal law in purge world that protects you from company retaliation, then nah. I bet people were getting fired, blackballed, banned from x or y stores e.t.c. all because of what they did on purge. Just no jail.

    Shit that kind makes the masks everyone wears make more sense.

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      It really sounds like it would make more sense to make it illegal to ask someone about the Purge or to retaliate against them until the next one. It’s not an illegal action. You could have been and likely were in danger for your own life, to boot. It should be protected information.

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      Then it’s a ‘crime’ movie where people become Poirot to figure out who killed their loved ones and/or Jerry from sales, and prepare to kill them in the next purge. All of society becomes an arms-race