"we create crime by first defining it, and in doing so we force ourselves to think about it, and that leads us to change previously acceptable behavior into newly deviant paths - which gets worse and worse the more we try to hammer out the definitions" No offense, but that is the most ridiculous attitude on crime I have ever heard and it makes me sick. So murder only exists because society deemed the taking of a human life as unacceptable? Are we now supposed to turn around and let slip the definition of murder, rape and theft because it "creates" criminals? Murder does not happen because society defined it as unnacceptable- murder happens because some sick, twisted individual feels that it is their right to to destroy some other individual's right to exist. There are things that no one on earth has the right to do to another person, and we all know it by instinct. And as for that last bit: "which gets worse and worse the more we try to hammer out the definitions" The only reason we have to hammer out more definitions is because people keep coming up with new and more inventive ways to get around the rules so they can hurt people.