Haha, no that's not what I'm saying. I'm referring to your grand privledge of funding or paying for licenses etc to be allowed to simply operate in today's overregulated society.
Yes this here is such a problem. I have always tried so hard to stay rigidly on the line of legal, guns ammo etc. I have spent so much time and money educating myself and complying. And the laws are written to intentionally leave so much gray, that on any day you can be arrested on "interpretation" its such a huge problem.
There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
and this is the problem more than any other! it's by design, as most who have gone into political office over the last half century have served at some point or another as an attorney
if your government is made up of lawyers, the laws will soon be written only in legalese so that they can enrich themselves and their brothers and sisters by ensuring if you don't want to go to jail for violating some bullshit directive, you need to hire a team of lawyers to translate the word salad for you into english.
There's something deeply immoral about laws that govern average men written in a manner which is incomprehensible to the governed. Legalese is not English. If it were, it wouldn't require a specialized dictionary. We may as well be ruled by laws written in latin or chinese.
That is a natural result of legislators who want to micromanage human behavior with stacks of laws.
The goal is to make sure you're always violating some obscure law, so that those who step out of line can be targeted via selective enforcement.
Honestly, what's the difference between "rule of a billion obscure laws you're always guilty of" and "rule of the arbitrary whims of a king"?
The Pharisees and Sadducees did the same thing.
They took the 10 Commandments and turned them into 613.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/613_commandments
Then they charged you for the right to bypass their impossible set of laws.
Sound familiar?
613 was for the entire Pentateuch, including all the dietary regulations and other religious laws.
^^...and the religiosity continues to this day!
Huh. So you're not saying it's the Juice.....But it's the Juice?
Haha, no that's not what I'm saying. I'm referring to your grand privledge of funding or paying for licenses etc to be allowed to simply operate in today's overregulated society.
Yes this here is such a problem. I have always tried so hard to stay rigidly on the line of legal, guns ammo etc. I have spent so much time and money educating myself and complying. And the laws are written to intentionally leave so much gray, that on any day you can be arrested on "interpretation" its such a huge problem.
--Ayn Rand
and this is the problem more than any other! it's by design, as most who have gone into political office over the last half century have served at some point or another as an attorney
if your government is made up of lawyers, the laws will soon be written only in legalese so that they can enrich themselves and their brothers and sisters by ensuring if you don't want to go to jail for violating some bullshit directive, you need to hire a team of lawyers to translate the word salad for you into english.
complete bullshit
There's something deeply immoral about laws that govern average men written in a manner which is incomprehensible to the governed. Legalese is not English. If it were, it wouldn't require a specialized dictionary. We may as well be ruled by laws written in latin or chinese.
Toute nation a le gouvernement qu'elle mérite.