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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by Bjartr on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @06:56PM (#10429394)
Are those centuries of jurisprudence still valuable in these scenarios if they're not working?
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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by morgante on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @07:05PM (#10429448)
How do we know they're not working?

Maybe it's working perfectly to protect financiers from being prosecuted for immoral but legal acts.

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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by chc on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @07:41PM (#10429621)
That would be what most people mean when they say they laws are not working. Similar to how, if our laws allowed highwaymen to get away with murder, we'd say they were failing us even though they were working perfectly to protect armed robbers.
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Re:Has It Become Impossible to Prosecute White-Collar Crime? by saryant on Wednesday October 21, 2015 @09:02PM (#10429880)
If an act isn't actually illegal, your problem isn't with the courts. It's with the legislative branch.
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