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by enraged_camel 3829 days ago
I think "selectively enforced" is a better way to put it.
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No, Frank Zappa had it best. Your words may be more accurate but his words are better.
The point he was making was right. It's not randomly enforced at all, it's enforced only when it pleases the government.
But the government is not a single actor with agency, from the outside it might as well be random. +1 Zappa.
Salutary neglect is as old as the colonies, boy.