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I recall reading that having a lot of strict laws on the books that are very selectively enforced is the standard playbook of authoritarian regimes.
by em500 3y ago
I recall reading that having a lot of strict laws on the books that are very selectively enforced is the standard playbook of authoritarian regimes.
- ben_w 3y agoIt's everyone's playbook. One of the reasons I use heroin as a go-to example of "you can't fully enforce laws even if you want to" is that it's so widely understood to be bad, and yet the UK is economically incapable of fully enforcing just that one rule even at the expense of all the others.