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To: whipitgood
What about the idea that willfully violating the law in this way leads people to believe that it is OK to ignore the law?

That is a result of bad law. Examples: The byzantine and exploitative tax code (full of loopholes for favored special interests, thus transferring their share of the load onto everyone else) encourages tax cheating. The practice of using traffic enforcement for revenue rather than safety breeds contempt to speed limits even when they are set based on legitimate engineering criteria.

What about the fact that the marijuana supply line is a violent lawless murdering entity which takes over more of America each year?

That is a result of prohibition, as demonstrated by the before-and-after experiment with alcohol prohibition.

268 posted on 02/28/2009 8:27:27 AM PST by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: steve-b

The example you set is that it is OK to ignore bad laws. I try to each my kids that there are bad laws, but they should still be obeyed. “What if everyone in society ignored all the laws? Would you want to live in that kind of society?”


270 posted on 02/28/2009 9:06:29 AM PST by whipitgood (Real Americans don't allow socialists to take over their country.)
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