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		bhickey on Aug 19, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Court Holds That Circumventing IP Address Ban Is “... `J - "You robbed a house." V - "I broke a windowpane."` The law isn't some nomic built out of analogies. Suppose a free weekly paper sent someone a C&D and told them to quit taking one copy of the paper. Should that demand be enforced? Edit: wrote quine, meant nomic.

anigbrowl on Aug 19, 2013 [–]

The law isn't some quine built out of analogies.

I beg to differ, that is pretty much my philosophy of law and indeed of mentation. I think there's considerable empirical evidence to support it.

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