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Originally Posted by cian
I think it depends upon the law. Speeding laws for example? Did you ever make a mixtape for someone? Drug laws?
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Certainly it depends upon the law, yes. Speeding laws? That's a dubious example to use. Doing 80mph on an empty motorway harms nobody. Doing 80mph along a road with a primary school on it, while the children are coming out of school, is obviously exceedingly dangerous and should be severely punished.
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Laws which can be broken without any wrong to one's neighbor are counted but a laughing stock; and so far from such laws restraining the appetites and lusts of mankind, they rather strengthen them. Nitimur in vetitum semper, cupimusque negata ["We always resist prohibitions, and yearn for what is denied us."]
— Baruch Spinoza (1623-1677), Dutch philosopher.
Tractatus Politicus, ch. 10.