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by anqh4 3352 days ago
Are laws set in stone for eternity? No.

Must acts that are committed now be judged by the laws that exist now? Yes.

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How do laws change? Are the changes ever retroactive? Do laws ever exist on the books longer than they are enforced or considered moral? Seems like everything is black and white for you, but reality rather disagrees.

Anyway, there already are whistleblower protection laws in many places.

I hold this comment to be untrue. It is clear in common-law that our peers may find a law to be untenable.