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by thefz 166 days ago
That is kind of the point of a law, to be impartial. Without it we might as well go back to the stone age.
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Sometimes laws are bad - but people in Kohlberg stage 4 don't think so.

There are many obvious historical counterexamples to laws being neutral, or good.

I am simply not for vigilante justice
"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread."