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Originally Posted by blazey
If you ask permission and you get it, then thats great. But if you dont, and you go onto land that isn't yours, then you should be seen to be committing an unlawful act regardless of how innocent the intention may be.
Reasonings like wanting to take photographs of the interior might seem innocent and reasonable enough, but if you allowed for reasonings like that then people would take advantage. As an example, and this is my viewpoint, if its innocent to go on someones property without permission and take photographs, then it'd be equally fair for a homeless person to enter your property for the sake of being warm, which would be an absurd ruling in the courts. Trespass in no situation should ever be condoned, nor should it ever be expected to be condoned in the court in my opnion. As far as I was aware, trespass is associated with both criminal and civil procedures.
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As willowthwhisp pointed out, people do go into buildings to keep warm, it's squating. I don't know the legal standpoint on that, I own my own warm house, fully locked and alarmed.
Trespass is a criminal offence on certain properties, not all, as I outlined above. If you force access (something I've never done), then it becomes breaking and entering, which is a criminal offence. That's a fact, try and prove me wrong if you wish. I wouldn't even contemplate breaking into somewhere, but there again I don't need to, there are just so many abandoned buildings with smashed doors, windows and fences.
I appreciate your viewpoint, the ethics of Urban Exploration differ between those who do it and those who don't.