Re: Re: What kind of pirate am I?

On 10/18/2010 4:49 PM, Muriel Lede wrote:

> On Monday 18 October 2010 16:50:19 you wrote:
>> But laws change if enough people disobey them. One way to look at the
>> law is as an ambit claim put forward by the government: 'This is how we
>> would like people to behave'. It can cope when only a few people are
>> unwilling or unable to behave in that way, but when large numbers of
>> people refuse to follow the law the only options are to keep quiet about
>> it -- which works for a while -- or change the law. Keeping futile laws
>> on the books only makes a government look stupid in the long run.
>
> The war on drugs alone is ample proof that you're mistaken.

Funny, I was about to say that the "war" on drugs is ample proof that 
he's correct ;-).


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