--- In thesplinteredsun@yahoogroups.com, <madfox@...> wrote:
>
> That is an opinion I don't share. Hack, lawful neutral organizations
in RL democracies actually use such tactics to be able to arrest
criminals. Although you could argue that American police officers
offering money to drugs dealers to arrest them when they deliver the
drugs or posing as hookers and arresting their "customers" when they
arrive at the motel room is not luring somebody into commiting a
crime. The argument is that they would commit the crime anyway.
>
> Pieter Sleijpen
>

That example I can agree with, but that was not my understanding of
'luring someone into a crime'. The officers in your example at best
set up the conditions for the crime that would be met at other times
or places anyway, to see whether or not the criminals do commit a
crime in such a situation.

They are not however provoking others into doing sth illegal that
normally they wouldn't do, maybe even by obscuring the fact it would
be illegal in the first place. When you said 'luring into a crime' my
understanding was e. g. of someone who obscured a speed sign with a
potted plant to catch people driving too fast ;) Or a more realistic
example, a doppleganger posing as someone else, sending adventurers to
kill a city official at his home.

Cheers,
Stefan