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The law cannot prevent you from doing something, it can only punish you if you do it.
by gcbirzan 6y ago
The law cannot prevent you from doing something, it can only punish you if you do it.
- FigmentEngine 6y agothat is a nonsense statement. "doing something" = "do it" if you mean, cant stop you considering it, then thats fair, but then the point has no value?
- gcbirzan 6y agoI'm not sure I understand what you mean.
- waheoo 6y agoWhat's difficult about this? The law prevents people from doing the wrong thing every day using the threat of jail time or worse. Claiming laws only punish actions taken so they can't be "preventitive" by preventing others from taking those actions is either naive or just plain intellectually dishonest.
- chaps 6y agoThe US is a country that has laws inaccessible to the public with no way of knowing whether you're breaking those laws. It's either naive or just plain intellectually dishonest to think that these laws exist as a preventative measure.
- spicybright 6y agoBut one can break a law and get away with it. It's selectively enforced.