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Originally Posted by Korimyr the Rat  Really? I would say that we abide only by those laws that are enforced, whether they are written down or not. And I'd certainly argue against the idea that the laws, either as written or as enforced, reflect the needs of society in any but the most general sense.
The laws as written reflect the needs of the men who wrote them, and the laws as enforced reflect the needs of the men who enforce them. Any other effect that they may have upon society at large is either an attempt to convince others to endorse the law, or purely coincidental. |
I will not disagree with that entirely, I was looking at it from a more theoretical view while you took the reality of how it is often applied.