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Re:South Korea bans virtual item trading & bots by guard-of-terra on Sunday June 17, 2012 @04:32PM (#4123744)
Laws are often inconsistent. For example, there exist laws which, if read literally, would state that having consentual sex with 13-year old would be punished more severely than raping said 13-year old.

There is another angle: old laws are more balanced - for worse crime there's more punishment. People could compare crimes back then.

Newer laws are hysterical: the crime severity does not readily correlates with punishment severity. This is because of lobbying by various forces and because people DEMAND BLOOD on some issues which were brought [by same or other groups] in order to distract them from other issues.

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Re:South Korea bans virtual item trading & bots by DeepDuh on Monday June 18, 2012 @05:34AM (#4125664)
Do we have any good sources on the claim that newer laws are less balanced? This subject should be taken very seriously. If a well founded study were to indicate this true, it would be a call to arms for heavy reforms on our democratic systems.
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Re:South Korea bans virtual item trading & bots by guard-of-terra on Monday June 18, 2012 @06:46AM (#4125785)
I do not. Would make an interesting read if somebody does.
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