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From: gam@amdahl.UUCP (Gordon A. Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.legal,net.politics
Subject: Re: Laws Nobody Obeys ARE NEEDED
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Date: Fri, 9-Nov-84 02:01:25 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov  9 02:01:25 1984
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> > 	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...
> ****                                                                 ****
> From the keys of Steve Henning, AT&T Bell Labs, Reading, PA aluxe!2141smh
> 
> You have a very sick and short sighted view of society.  It is human
> nature to push the limits.  We feel we need to show our independence.
> But we still need safeguards to protect the rights and safety of
> our friends, our neighbors, and our loved ones.  If you don't give a
> shit about them, who do you care for.  Perhaps you don't care and
> there is no law against that but it tends to reduce the number of
> friends, neighbors, and loved ones.

I see.  So any law that has ever existed should always exist, because
to reverse that law would make us lawless, brutal, insensitive
barbarians?

I am sickened by your short-sighted understanding of law.
Sick, sick, sick ....
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Gordon A. Moffett		...!{ihnp4,hplabs,amd,nsc}!amdahl!gam

[ This is just me talking. ]