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> you're always violating some law Exactly. Selective enforcement is indistinguishable from arbitrary arrest.
by panarky 8y ago
> you're always violating some law
Exactly.
Selective enforcement is indistinguishable from arbitrary arrest.
- peteretep 8y agoWhich is what makes America, with elected and political DA's, so much less of a beacon compared to normal democratic countries where that would be considered insane.
- mlazos 8y agoI don’t agree with this, selective enforcement at least has a ceiling of what you can be arrested for. Arbitrary arrest does not have such a ceiling.
- thatcat 8y agoAs the size of a set of rules approaches infinity, it becomes indistinguishable from selective enforcement.
- manfredo 8y agoI think the above poster's point is that there are so many laws on the books that effectively everyone is above said ceiling. Thus, selective enforcement is functionally identical to arbitrary arrest.
- hannasanarion 8y agoNo, because the fine, jail time, and infamy of "public noodle eating" or whatever has a hard cap. Selective enforcement can only get harassers so far. China's harassers get to use the much more powerful "lock up whoever I want for no reason at all, forever"
- manfredo 8y agoSure, public noodle eating may not have a long sentence. But carring a lobster in a plastic bag is a felony: https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dd-7o9xYp7eE&ved=2ahUKEwjuyY_2iYrfAhUHHjQIHRd0AKoQyCkwAHoECAwQBA&usg=AOvVaw1xqPJNnCOshx75yNfYbDTt https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3Dd-7o9xYp7eE&ved=2ahUKEwjuy... There are enough laws on the books to lock people up at essentially any time if the police care enough to do so.
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