On Saturday, November 22, 2014 10:02:09 PM UTC+1, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > Let me point out that we're discussing a rather different kind of "law", > which is about morality/ethics, and not about economics. > Contrary to contract laws, morality laws are known to be notoriously > counterproductive and prone to violation by the majority (I'd recall > e.g. various US state laws which prohibit widely practiced forms of > sexial activity, or stupidly harsh US drug laws...). >
I'm not inclined to dispute even the parts with which I disagree, but don't your examples merely reinforce my argument? i.e., laws that can't/won't be enforced only encourage scofflaws. john perry -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-devel" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
