• earphone843
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    16 hours ago

    If the law isn’t being enforced, then he’s not breaking anything.

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        the law does not exist if there is no mechanism to enforce it, literally not worth the paper it’s printed on, it no longer becomes a law, just some words written on a page with a signature on it

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          You say ‘exist’ to mean ‘is enforceable’. I know we live in a world where ‘figurative’ means its own actual antonym, but those two ideas do not overlap perfectly at all.