He’d heard the argument back on Earth that crime actually stimulated economies in some ways. It had sounded like total horseshit at first, but then he realized that it depended on what the definition of a crime was and which society you were talking about. Few would argue that smuggling innocents out of countries hellbent on their destruction was a bad thing, though based on that government’s laws, it would be considered a crime. There were also plenty of examples in history where “crime” had been a necessary component of a civilization. In the United States’ past, it had been a “crime” to
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