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Civil Liberties

Ocelot II

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3. Did they fix them?

Reply to sop (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 21, 2021, 08:19 AM

Dec 2021

Laws can fix a social problem only if they define specific conduct as unlawful and provide a remedy if the conduct occurs. Outlawing anger is impossible; a society can only outlaw conduct.

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"[Robert] Reich has two ideas that he thinks don't undermine free speech. He's simply wrong." [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2021 OP

Reich is wrong a lot of times, especially in a lot of his economic pronouncements JohnSJ Dec 2021 #1

"Society's problems can't all be fixed by law." sop Dec 2021 #2

Did they fix them? Ocelot II Dec 2021 #3

These laws didn't fail, they were undone by opponents precisely because they were working. sop Dec 2021 #4

Cohn sounds like a libertarian. Fiendish Thingy Dec 2021 #5