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Illegal is binary. Enforcement is what's squishy, because liability normally doesn't address deep pockets.
by ctdonath 5y ago
Illegal is binary. Enforcement is what's squishy, because liability normally doesn't address deep pockets.
- nomel 5y agoI think one could claim that illegal and enforcement or so closely tied together that they can't be separated in a meaningful way.
- ctdonath 5y agoThat's...preposterous. There are a great many illegal acts that are so rarely enforced that the act is normalized, with enforcement surprising the culprits - speeding and rolling stops being the primary examples. Such are normalized because individual enforcement is practically impossible; it's when the behavior gets codified by a business as/in a product that gov't has a chance to crack down on it.