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• TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
  One of my all time favourite HN, and general, comments can be found here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033481 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6033481 You seem obsessed with laws, as if they possess value and worth in and of themselves, when really they are a very high latency sidechannel of society and power. Changed legal status tends to follow social status. Do you think, for example, slavery, universal suffrage, women's suffrage, or homosexuality, are about to be made illegal again? In some areas it took decades for the laws to reflect reality. It should be noted, too, that, generally speaking, the police retain retain the power to arrest you. Period. They don't need a reason. They'll just arrest you and charge with whatever they want. Roll a dice. You can get arrested for crossing the street, or cycling home, or holding your tongue the wrong way on a Tuesday. They don't need drug laws for that. It's usually up to some government prosecutor to decide whether they will go ahead with the case. And in my experience, at least here in Australia, the public prosecutor tends to have their head screwed on way more than the kids in blue. Who for some reason feel it necessary to take guns to the bakery to get their lunch. How insecure do you have to be.