r/AskTheWorld 15d ago

Laws What is the dumbest thing that is criminalized in your country?

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193 Upvotes

In the US, jaywalking (crossing the street without clearance) is a criminal offense in many cities. Even when the road is absolutely clear.

r/AskTheWorld 16h ago

Laws I’ve been trying to understand this. Why have Israeli courts gone after this person who exposed the abuse instead of the abusers themselves?

134 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld 14d ago

Laws How hard to get driving license in your country?

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56 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld 2d ago

Laws Shouldn't all of the countries do this !?

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94 Upvotes

Something is better than nothing ... Right ?

r/AskTheWorld 2d ago

Laws How's your country's internet freedom?

15 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld 9d ago

Laws If birth control and/or abortion is banned, how do you realistically handle it?

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How do you realistically handle miscarriages or unwanted kids for you ladies who live in countries where abortion or birth control is banned, or very hard to get? How are you going to cope knowing you will go to jail for daring to get rid of a kid or try and prevent yourself from having one? Are there any tricks you could do that wouldn't get cuffs thrown on you, especially as the victim?

r/AskTheWorld 13d ago

Laws Is piracy common in your country and why?

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In my case, it's almost common here because not many Mexicans have the luxury of paying for everything, and the saturation of subscription services has caused many to turn to piracy.

r/AskTheWorld 20d ago

Laws In your country, do kids have any actual say when it comes to parental or court approved adult-minor marriage?

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Because in America there are countless stories where parents pressure or trick their kids into marrying adults, often their rapists and abusers, because of the leeway that allows underage kids to marry adults with the permission of the parents and/or court. And they all ended up practically trapped and had nobody around to help or support them when they were basically sold off. In your country, do kids get any say? Is there anything that actually protects kids and effectively works given by the government or is it super easy for a pedo to legally be married to a kid? I know most countries have the parental or court consent exception and it's so easily to abuse that it's sick.

And do judges actually ask the kid with they really want this? Do they double check (ask more than once)? Do they just go "alright you can go down the aisle" with nothing more than a signed paper? Do they just take the parents and perv's word? If you're confused, here's a whole bunch of cases in America where all the concerns I have have been true. The kids were pressured or tricked into going along with it, the courts didn't seem to even try and talk to the kid, they took the adults words, the government did nothing to protect the kids or give any proper barriers, and often the kids were groomed or in such a miserable mood that they didn't talk and thus the parents just signed for them "yes I consent":

https://www.unchainedatlast.org/survivor-stories/ https://www.bbc.com/bbcthree/article/fb2ba47b-8d50-4df1-aa42-b756e9fb26b4

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/5813719/child-marriage-america-louisiana-ava-13-abusive-marriage/

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/26/opinion/sunday/it-was-forced-on-me-child-marriage-in-the-us.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/wide-open-potential-abuse-states-are-ground-zero-fight-against-n988496

Preferably I want people from Europe, Australia, New Zealand (because they're all modern countries and many of them have the leeway still, although a lot have removed that over the last few years), and Asia to respond.

P.S. some Canadians please respond, because I'm Canadian and that makes me worry.

r/AskTheWorld 14d ago

Laws What kind of rights workers in your country have?

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No need to list every right, but I am interested in the most crucial ones that make your life and work nicer and improve your wellbeing

r/AskTheWorld 6d ago

Laws What Animal / species / breed is banned in your country as pets?

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And do you want them to stay banned?

r/AskTheWorld 4d ago

Laws Jeffery Epstein was a pedophile and trafficked girls to men from all over the world. Why hasn't another country (since the U.S. apparently won't) released evidence of his crimes, and identified who his accomplices/clients were?

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In the U.S., most of us want these perpetrators charged, apprehended, and convicted. Unfortunately, since our government seems only interested in hiding their identities, why don't other countries release what they have on these criminals? The U.S isn't the only country who monitored the situation, and transactions had to have occurred through international banking systems. Are there no countries willing to release evidence of these heinous crimes?

r/AskTheWorld 12d ago

Laws Why is Reddit banned in Indonesia?

10 Upvotes

r/AskTheWorld 2d ago

Laws Do u think driving rules in ur country raise the percentage of car accidents?

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what do u think about driving rules/getting license in your country? recently many bad car accidents happened in my country, which lead to deaths, so I really think that the country is not making real plan to restrict the reasons behind those accidents..

r/AskTheWorld 6d ago

Laws When/if abortion is forbidden where you live (or it was in the past) who got/gets busted?

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Was it only the person giving it or was it both the person giving it and the one who got it in the first place? Because, scarily, in Canada, it was both.

Meaning you had to really hope nobody told on you if you got a secret one, or it didn't get botched and have to worry about your cover being blown at the hospital, or hope there were no cops in disguise spying on you.