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		t-3 5 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: China is run by engineers. America is run by lawye... No law is enforced absolutely on every offender. That's impossible. Selective enforcement is a problem, but I would never say it's worse than no enforcement unless the law is bad in the first place.

jacquesm 5 months ago [–]

It is when it is mostly used as a weapon rather than as a law. And China, unfortunately, has quite a lot of that.

hermitcrab 5 months ago | [–]

“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.”

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