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It's not clear to me that the more difficult-to-enforce laws are also the more tyrannical. Examples - tyrannical but easy to enforce: "private citizens must all
by lincolnq 13y ago
It's not clear to me that the more difficult-to-enforce laws are also the more tyrannical. Examples - tyrannical but easy to enforce: "private citizens must allow soldiers to stay in their houses and eat their food". Hard to enforce but not tyrannical: "don't have sex with people against their will".
- betterunix 13y agoThat is a different kind of difficulty. What I am talking about are the deliberate obstacles to law enforcement and other government functions in the United States. There is an easier example than quartering soldiers: search warrants. It is easy for the police to search a home; it is hard for the police to get permission to do so. The purpose of these obstacles is to make law enforcement difficult in general, so that tyranny is harder to establish. By forcing the police to work hard, we force them to prioritize the laws they will enforce. It would be hard for the government to justify enforcing some oppressive law while letting murderers walk free; it is less difficult to justify ignoring an oppressive law because the police were too busy tracking down murderers.