Re:Twitter says it will restrict retweeting world leaders wh...
by coldtea on Wednesday October 16, 2019 @04:50AM
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>Consider things like the Jewish law that a child who disobeys his parents must be stoned to death.
Is this a typical "more common" example of law though, or some curiosity from antiquity?
How many modern laws are wanted "despite enforcement being impossible"? (Which as per your example, doesn't even mean "enforcement being impossible" but rather "enforcement being undesirable" or something). We have some laws that we can't enforce in the sense of there's no easy way to practically check if somebody broken it (e.g. pirating some software). But most laws we can and do enforce them if the perpetrator is caught.
Is this a typical "more common" example of law though, or some curiosity from antiquity?
How many modern laws are wanted "despite enforcement being impossible"? (Which as per your example, doesn't even mean "enforcement being impossible" but rather "enforcement being undesirable" or something). We have some laws that we can't enforce in the sense of there's no easy way to practically check if somebody broken it (e.g. pirating some software). But most laws we can and do enforce them if the perpetrator is caught.