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Illegal but unenforced is still illegal.

• mothballed 9mo ago
  de jure illegal but unenforced is de facto legal. de jure legal but enforced is de facto illegal.
  • croon 9mo ago
    Which is why de facto legality is very low value discussion fodder in an environment of rampant unenforcement of laws.
    • mothballed 9mo ago
      Quite the contrary, in such an environment it is even more important to figure out what is de facto legal because you cannot count on reading the law to determine such.
      • croon 9mo ago
        In such an environment "what" is irrelevant, it's merely about "who".
  • mindslight 9mo ago
    As someone who often makes a distinction between de jure and de facto, "de facto legal" is an oxymoron. Per Gödel, that lets you prove anything.