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No, it literally says the law says you must seek permission if you wanna leave for more than 3 months and the govt must always grant you this if not in a war. A
by victorbjorklund 7mo ago
No, it literally says the law says you must seek permission if you wanna leave for more than 3 months and the govt must always grant you this if not in a war. And if you fail to seek permission nothing happens. You can ignore it without consequence.
- coldtea 7mo ago>And if you fail to seek permission nothing happens. You can ignore it without consequence The consequence is you violated the law, and they can have you at any time, even retroactively, for that. That they don't is merely a detail. If it really has "no consequence" they should remove it.
- wat10000 7mo agoCivilized countries don’t allow retroactively increasing the penalty for breaking a law. Does Germany allow that?
- ultrarunner 7mo agoThe penalty doesn't have to be increased, it just needs to be selectively enforced.
- seba_dos1 7mo agoYou'd need to have some unenforced penalty first though.
- victorbjorklund 7mo agoThere is no penalty.
- gmueckl 7mo agoNo, Germany punishes according to the laws at the time of the crime. It is not possible to retroactively enforce new criminal statutes.
- dwedge 7mo agoA lot of laws head this way. Sweeping chances but not enforced so people ignore it, then later there's nothing stopping the government going back 7 years after select individuals. Just because it wasn't ever enforced doesn't mean it isn't illegal. An example is disguised employment laws for contractors in the UK (IR35)
- im3w1l 7mo agoI think it's like they want to have it on the books now so they can use it later. If they try to emergency legislate during wartime people will protest and/or flee the country the day before it starts applying.
- victorbjorklund 7mo agoYea, you violated a law that is not enforced. Like how you are violating the law if you give some money to the neighbors kid to mow your lawn or if you cook some pie and you give it away to a friend without having proper certifications (at least in Sweden on paper you need to have certification to do that. Of course it is not enforced) And no, Germany does not allow retroactive criminal punishments. That’s more something that happens in Russia, China and probably soon America
- ndarray 7mo agoAt least Germany isn't looking at entering any wars at the moment...