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From: mam@charm.UUCP (Matthew Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.legal,net.politics
Subject: Laws Nobody Obeys
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Date: Tue, 6-Nov-84 21:27:19 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov  6 21:27:19 1984
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	A thought for the assembled masses:

What should the status be of a law which is habitually disobeyed by a large
fraction of those to whom it applies?  Examples: 55mph, Prohibition, the Bell
Labs General Executive Instruction forbidding "profanity" under pain of
dismissal, the various copyright laws which are routinely broken with copiers
and VCRs.

	It seems to me that a law which is broken so much of the time is in
some fundamental way sick, and should be re-thought.  Just a thought...

		{BTL}!charm!mam   "One false move and I copy your book!"

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