• frayedpickles@lemmy.cafe
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    2 months ago

    No, you have sanity backwards. This is a great argument for our legal system needing an overhaul so that only things that are enforced always are enshrined in laws. Murder is bad – great law. Loitering as a concept – dumb law used to abuse.

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      2 months ago

      There will never be perfect laws. The idea of encoding behavior is absurd. What we need is let the laws handle the major ideas (don’t kill etc) and let real live humans handle the details.

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        1 month ago

        Unfortunately when you say real live humans you mean “a coin flip between getting a human or a raging authoritarian racist bully with a gun” which is why your idea doesn’t work, historically. Works well for the racist bullies I suppose.