From: Rafal Smigrodzki (rms2g@virginia.edu)
Date: Wed Oct 16 2002 - 14:32:09 MDT
owner-extropians@extropy.org wrote:
> spike66 wrote:
>
>> Eliezer S. Yudkowsky wrote:
>>
>>> ...
>>> The keyword here is *mutual* transparency. Let's start by tracking
>>> all elected officials and legislators, and any bureaucrat making
>>> more than $50,000/year, then work our way down.
>>
>>
>> Roger that. See how fast most of the sillier laws
>> disappear off the books. The ones that would remain
>> ...
>
> Do you really think that they would enforce the laws just because they
> could? They'll do just as they do right now. Save the law until they
> want to pin something on someone, and they can't get him on anything
> real.
### Not really. The lawyers on this list might comment more but as far as I
know laws which are not enforced cannot be arbitrarily used, and it's
possible to get a court to throw the case out. This is why cops cannot
ticket you for driving 56 miles in a 55 mile zone, unless they can prove
they ticket everybody the same way.
Rafal
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