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by jlgreco 4826 days ago
If Ahmadinejad decrees that there are no gay people in Iran, does that make it so? If Kim Jung Un went craz(ier) and said that all North Koreans are men, would that make it so? If (when) I become galactic emperor and (for my own amusement) declare that henceforth camus's legal status will be "bird", would that make it so?

Laws are what we make them, they do not influence the nature of reality.