Some poeple think the law should describe illegal behaviour. And that the law should apply the same to everyone.
But what happens in practice is that most people just want to be able to punish people they don’t like. So they don’t mind overly broad, generic laws, as in their mind it will only be used against the other.
And in practice the selective enforcement works for a long, long time, too. Untill a shift of power occurs, and now the same laws are enacted just as selectively, but directed differently. Then they surprise pikachu.
Believe it or not, but there are externalities to the polemics you are describing.
The ostentatious posturing (I am a tiny minority that is virtuous, everyone else just wants to punish people and doesn’t the law to apply to everyone equally) is pretty ignorant. I’ve lived in multiple countries across North America, Europe and Asia, it’s clear that you haven’t that about this.
It’s comically easy to find well known (locally) examples where even the non polemical version of your arguement doesn’t hold.
Someone once explained it to me.
Some poeple think the law should describe illegal behaviour. And that the law should apply the same to everyone.
But what happens in practice is that most people just want to be able to punish people they don’t like. So they don’t mind overly broad, generic laws, as in their mind it will only be used against the other.
And in practice the selective enforcement works for a long, long time, too. Untill a shift of power occurs, and now the same laws are enacted just as selectively, but directed differently. Then they surprise pikachu.
Believe it or not, but there are externalities to the polemics you are describing.
The ostentatious posturing (I am a tiny minority that is virtuous, everyone else just wants to punish people and doesn’t the law to apply to everyone equally) is pretty ignorant. I’ve lived in multiple countries across North America, Europe and Asia, it’s clear that you haven’t that about this.
It’s comically easy to find well known (locally) examples where even the non polemical version of your arguement doesn’t hold.