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by TeMPOraL 490 days ago
Is that a prescriptive or descriptive law?
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He left out part of the quote, which is misappropriated as well. Wikipedia:

> This quotation is often incorrectly attributed to Francis M. Wilhoit:

> Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

> However, it was actually a 2018 blog response by 59-year-old Ohio composer Frank Wilhoit, years after Francis Wilhoit's death.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_M._Wilhoit

A restatement of Orwell's "all animals are equal, but some are more equal than others".

The irony must have been lost on him.

Lol, that's clearly a descriptive law/maxim not an actual law.