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> Society agrees on most principles and these are what become our laws Not at all. Society can, and does, agree on all sorts of stuff without it becoming law.
by bzbarsky 8y ago
> Society agrees on most principles and these are what become our laws
Not at all. Society can, and does, agree on all sorts of stuff without it becoming law. This is generally a very good thing, because criminalizing behavior, even behavior everyone agrees is not great, has significant costs. Sometimes those costs are larger than the costs of the behavior itself.
- manigandham 8y agoWhat you're describing is the scale of an issue and I would say that's 1 of 2 inputs into the overall equation: how many people agree and how many people does it affect.