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Originally Posted by Nakor
Aye, I don't blame the judge. I still think the law's backward though.
My wording was wrong in the first paragraph admittedly -- my second paragraph was the more accurate (if only by being more vague), in that you can't make the backup without participating in illegal activity to be able to do so (in that the person you are buying from is breaking the law by selling to you, and thus you are participating in that activity).
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It's not so much that the law is backwards, as it is that legislators approach writing laws by making a nice, broad, general statement, then start building in exceptions, and exceptions to the exceptions, except in the case of some other exception, and not applying to left-handed redheads in July, to the point where it starts to seem like they couldn't describe the hole in a donut except by saying what it isn't.
There used to be a column in a newspaper I read that would take a piece of legal gobbledygook and make fun of it. I realized I was hopelessly a lawyer one day when they quoted a convoluted IRS regulation
and it made perfect sense to me when I read it.