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    The evidentiary difficulty of proving a crime is a reason... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Lawmakers should be cautious when criminalizing conduct like sodomy that is typically not witnessed by several people

    The evidentiary difficulty of proving a crime is a reason to reform investigative procedures, not to decriminalize the underlying conduct.

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    • 1.Decriminalization abandons victims and rule of law; better procedures serve justice without sacrificing accountability.
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    • 2.Procedural reform is feasible (improved forensics, surveillance, witness protocols) while decriminalization is irreversible.
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    • 3.Proof difficulty often reflects resource constraints, not inherent unmeasurable wrongdoing, so reform targets the real problem.
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    • 1.Some conduct's evidentiary difficulty reflects its genuinely private/consensual nature; criminalizing the unverifiable harms liberty.
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    • 2.Procedural reforms can enable false convictions and rights violations; decriminalization prevents this category of injustice entirely.
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    • 3.If conduct cannot reliably be proven in practice despite real effort, criminalization creates arbitrary enforcement based on investigator luck.
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