heisenberg "They don’t do that now"
I don't see why you're so sure, it was definitely frowned on then, ie illegal dumping of rubbish, fly tipping, but I saw sailors/kitchen staff throwing open cartons full of trash and kitchen rubbish over the back rail of the ship into the wash of the propellers, I'm guessing to avoid paying dumping fees to the port area dump for such rubbish.
That situation would still be exactly the same, no observers = no crime but no fees to pay.
I don't see why you're so sure, it was definitely frowned on then, ie illegal dumping of rubbish, fly tipping, but I saw sailors/kitchen staff throwing open cartons full of trash and kitchen rubbish over the back rail of the ship into the wash of the propellers, I'm guessing to avoid paying dumping fees to the port area dump for such rubbish.
That situation would still be exactly the same, no observers = no crime but no fees to pay.
It's not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable. The hundred-times-refuted theory of "free will" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it - Friedrich Nietzsche