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Enabling a large number of people to more easily do slightly illegal things can be viewed as an opening offer in a negotiation. If the scale is large enough tha
by paulbaumgart 13y ago
Enabling a large number of people to more easily do slightly illegal things can be viewed as an opening offer in a negotiation. If the scale is large enough that enforcing existing laws is unrealistic, what often happens is that lawmakers and offenders eventually meet somewhere in the middle.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 13y agoWhy would it be too large to enforce? The drug war certainly isn't.
- smsm42 13y agoThe drug war is also a spectacular failure and has been a main source of civil rights abuses until 9/11 response overtook it in that capacity (not that it doesn't continue to provide a healthy competition still). But yes, expecting that government wakes up to reason anytime soon may be overly optimistic.
- TillE 13y agoUnlikely in this case. Berlin for example is going in very much the opposite direction, passing new laws to crack down on short-term rentals, freeing up more properties in the city centre for actual residents.